Moderate alcohol consumption inversely correlated with all-cause mortality

My roommate recently sent me a review article that LW might find interesting:

Conclusions: Low levels of alcohol intake (1-2 drinks per day for women and 2-4 drinks per day for men) are inversely associated with total mortality in both men and women. Our findings, while confirming the hazards of excess drinking, indicate potential windows of alcohol intake that may confer a net beneficial effect of moderate drinking, at least in terms of survival.

Personal observation says that LWers tend not to drink very much or often. Perhaps that should change, to the degree suggested by the article?

Full article here.

My roommate recently sent me a review article that LW might find interesting:

Conclusions: Low levels of alcohol intake (1-2 drinks per day for women and 2-4 drinks per day for men) are inversely associated with total mortality in both men and women. Our findings, while confirming the hazards of excess drinking, indicate potential windows of alcohol intake that may confer a net beneficial effect of moderate drinking, at least in terms of survival.

Personal observation says that LWers tend not to drink very much or often. Perhaps that should change, to the degree suggested by the article?

Full article here.

Note that the scientists themselves do not claim a causal effect, but only association.

They claim causation in several places, albeit sprinkled with perhapses and maybes. From the abstract:

potential windows of alcohol intake that may confer a net beneficial effect

From the Comment section:

...the benefit of light to moderate drinking remained in a range of undoubted public health value (15%-18%)...

...the maximum protection conferred by light to moderate drinking...

...the “real” (maximum) protection against total mortality associated with low levels of alcohol consumption would still be higher than 10%.

This is all causal language.