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Časopis Cardiology for practice – Článok Positive Effects of Moderate Alcohol Use on Human Health: the Futile Search for a Third Side of the Coin

Cardiology for practice

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Positive Effects of Moderate Alcohol Use on Human Health: the Futile Search for a Third Side of the Coin

Michal Miovský

This article was originally published: Miovský, M. (2017). Pozitivní vliv umírněného pití alkoholu na lidské zdraví: marné hledání třetí strany mince. Adiktologie, 17(2), 148–160.

The debate on the possible health benefits of alcohol use has been gaining in intensity. Apart from lay and usually ill-founded assertions, it is not uncommon to come across arguments referring to professional sources which are also spread and advocated by some physicians. The author of this article points out the highly dangerous phenomenon of the conflict of interest and other ethical dimensions of such approaches, as well as drawing attention to other professional aspects and correlates this issue involves. Recent evidence clearly shows that it is inappropriate, in both professional and ethical terms, to recommend “preventive alcohol use”. Alcohol causes more deaths than it can prevent. To recommend moderate drinking on the basis of its preventive effect for some diagnoses (e.g. the much-debated cardioprotective effect) means at the same time to ignore the fact that it significantly increases the risks of other diagnoses (such as liver cirrhosis, stroke, and cancer). Including references to comprehensive reviews, the illustrative data used in the text only pertains to selected areas of health consequences. While the current campaigns, especially that involving mass media messages advocating the protective health effects of “moderate” long-term drinking, may seem to imply a major shift or even breakthrough in the view of the influence of alcohol on health, they only represent a futile search for a third side of the coin. In fact, these campaigns are there to serve the alcohol industry or to give consumers an argument to justify their behaviour. Populism and the tabloidization this topic entails are amajor issue which can produce long-term negative consequences in both clinical and public health terms. It should not be underestimated and efforts should be made to prevent the principles of critical thinking and the interpretation of the available clinical and research evidence from being compromised.

alcohol, moderate alcohol use, moderate drinking, health
Kardiol. Prax 2019; 17 (1): 43-52

Ročník 2019  Témy časopisu Cardiology for practice 1 / 2019

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Natália Vaňová, Soňa Tomková, Ivan Skalina, Katarína Hricová, Tomáš Krivý
Miroslav Slanina, Ján Kmec, Martin Studenčan
Tomáš Jurko, Alexander Jurko ml., Ján Strachan, Lucia Olexová Bóna, Michal Meštaník, Ingrid Tonhajzerová, Jana Mištinová Poláková
Drahomíra Schwartzová, Drahomíra Schwartzová ml., Claudia Gibarti, Daniel Farkaš, Gabriel Valiska, Jarmila Platová
Erika Komanová
Žaneta Csáderová, Ľubomír Gulán

Case studies

Natália Vaňová, Viola Vargová, Drahomíra Schwartzová st., Claudia Gibarti, Nikoleta Hamašová

Overview works

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1. Shaheen NJ, Crosby NA, Bozymski EM, et al. Is there publication bias in the reporting cancer risk in Barrett´ esophagus? Gastroenterology 2000; 119: 333-338.
2. Stenestrand U, Wallentin L. Swedish Register of Cardiac Intensive Care (RIKS-HIA): Early statin treatment following acute myocardial infarction and 1-year survival. JAMA 2001; 285: 430-436.
3. LIPID Study Group. Prevention of cardiovascular events and death with pravastatin in patients with coronary heart disease and a broad range of initial cholesterol levels. N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 1349-1357.
4. Jurkovičová O, Spitzerová H, Cagáň S. Komorové arytmie a náhla srdcová smrť pri akútnom infarkte myokardu. Bratisl Lek Listy 1997; 98: 379-389.
5. Osborne BE. The electrocardiogram of the rat. In: Budden R, Detweiler DK, Zbinden G. The rat electrocardiogram in pharmacology and toxicology. Oxford: Pergamon Press 1981: 15-27.

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Cardiology for practice
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