The French Paradox

How an early-'90s newsmagazine show convinced a generation of Americans to start drinking red wine. For the antioxidants!

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Links!
• Diet and alcohol in heart disease risk: the French Paradox (journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/009145099…)
• Absorption of three wine-related polyphenols in three different matrices by healthy subjects (sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S000…)
• From red wine to polyphenols and back: A journey through the history of the French Paradox (sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004…)
• Wine as a Biological Fluid: History, Production, and Role in Disease Prevention (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6760744/pdf/J…)
• Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Confounders Among Nondrinking and Moderate-Drinking U.S. Adults (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15831343)
• Alcohol, Drinking Pattern, and Chronic Disease (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35565924)
• The French paradox: lessons for other countries (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1768013)
• Myocardial Infarction and Coronary Deaths in the World Health Organization MONICA Project (ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/01.CIR.90.1.583)
• Coronary heart disease in France and in Europe: Where are the facts? (researchgate.net/profile/Michelle-Holdsworth/p…)
• Wine And Juice Management And Marketing Decisions: The Case Of The French Paradox (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.…)
• Decline of coronary heart disease mortality is strongly effected by changing patterns of underlying causes of death (link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-020-0…)
• The Medical Autopsy: Past, Present, and Dubious Future (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6188261)
• New dimensions in cause of death statistics (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1650437)
• Should socioeconomic factors be considered as traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease, as confounders, or as risk modifiers?
• Wine, alcohol, platelets, and the French paradox for coronary heart disease (sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0140…)
• Alcohol, Ischemic Heart Disease, and the French Paradox (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/clc.49…)
• Death certificates are not reliable: revivification of the autopsy (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16866055)
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