There are confounding
variables though that are hard to decipher in mixed group research or surveys of people's drinking habits... for one, it's rarely
studied as to whether hard liquor drinkers would actually fare as well as somebody that ONLY drank wine or beer, each of which have their own unique antioxidants that are
usually missing in hard alcohol.
«The authors analyzed malaria statistics that were collected in Finland from 1750 to 2008 via correlation analyses between malaria frequency per million people and all
variables that have been used in similar
studies throughout other parts of Europe,» including temperature data, animal husbandry, consolidation of land by redistribution and household size... report that «malaria was a common endemic disease in Finland in the 18th and 19th centuries and prevalent in the whole country,» and they say that «mortality during malaria epidemics
usually varied between 0.85 and 3 %.»