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1. How are the estimates made 2. What about heart disease? 3. What do the risk curves mean?
Lifetime risk of an alcoholrelated death (1/100) 16.0 14.0 12.0 10.0 8.0 6.0 4.0 2.0 0.0 Men daily Women daily Men weekly Women weekly 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Grams alcohol per day or per week Lifetime risk of dying from alcohol-related death by gram alcohol/day or /week for Australian men and women. Source: National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia, 2009
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