Healthcare Triage News: That Big Scary Study about Booze? It’s Not as Scary as You Think.

There was a big study on alcohol and life expectancy that was all over the news recently. It was pretty scary, and seemed to conclude that any alcohol use can shorten your life. Well, that study had a lot of problems. Let’s talk about it.

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

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