tea is the second most commonly consumed beverage world wide. tea ( camellia sinensis ) is a naturally rich source of fluoride. the quantity of fluoride intake is important in optimizing its dental caries-preventive role. intense concentration of fluoride in tea, can lead to excessive fluoride intake which may cause health problems in turn. the measurement of fluoride intake usually requires in...

BACKGROUND Previous reports, mostly from retrospective studies, suggested possible protective effects of both tea and coffee against endometrial cancer, but recent reports from prospective studies generally showed weaker or null associations. OBJECTIVES We investigated endometrial cancer risk in relation to tea and coffee consumption in a large prospective study and did a meta-analysis of pub...

BACKGROUND The alcohol-attributable fraction for injury mortality is defined as the proportion of fatal injury that would disappear if consumption went to zero. Estimating this fraction has previously been based on a simplistic view of drinking and associated risk. This paper develops a new way to calculate the alcohol-attributable fraction for injury based on different dimensions of drinking, ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association of the California Comprehensive Tobacco Control Program with self-reported population trends of cigarette consumption during 1992-2002. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Participants were non-Hispanic white daily smokers (aged 20-64 years, n = 24 317) from the Tobacco Use Supplements to the Current Population Survey (1992-2002). We compared age-specific trends ...

Introduction This study integrates two lines of research on the AUDIT-C: a study which estimated average alcohol consumption at each AUDIT-C score using national U.S. population data, and a set of studies which evaluated the association of AUDIT-C scores with alcohol-related health outcomes. This presentation synthesizes results from these studies to depict the association between 1) AUDIT-C sc...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Little is known about the effect of alcohol consumption on the quality of care among patients with diabetes. We evaluated the association between alcohol consumption and diabetes preventive practices. METHODS We analyzed data from the 2001 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Based on self-reported alcohol consumption in the past 30 days, we categorized partic...

The present study assessed the relationship between current alcohol symptoms and consumption levels in a heterogeneous sample of older adults. The sample consisted of 443 participants over age 55 who reported drinking within the past year, including social drinkers, alcoholics in treatment, and alcoholics not in treatment. Symptoms for the past year were assessed using the Diagnostic interview ...