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The study found that twins who drink a lot of alcohol die faster than their identical co-twins who drink less.
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The study shows that the increased mortality associated with alcohol consumption cannot be explained by bad genes or bad chilldood environment shared by the twins. This suggests that alcohol drinking may cause increased mortality.
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This page is a summary of: Drinking and mortality: long-term follow-up of drinking-discordant twin pairs, Addiction, November 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/add.13152.
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