Effects of Alcohol Consumption on Cardiovascular Events in Male Patients With Healed Myocardial Infarction

Background In Western countries, many studies have shown that among healthy people moderate drinkers have a lower incidence of cardiovascular events than abstainers and heavy drinkers. However, it is not clear whether this is true in patients with a healed myocardial infarction (MI). Methods and Res...

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Published in:Circulation Journal 2006, Vol.70(10), pp.1263-1268
Main Authors: Masunaga, Nobutaka, Kimura, Akio, Miyataka, Masaru, Nishioka, Norio, Hirano, Yutaka, Hayashi, Takahiro, Ishikawa, Kinji
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age Factors
Aged
Alcohol consumption
Alcohol Drinking - epidemiology
Cardiovascular Diseases - epidemiology
Cardiovascular Diseases - etiology
Cardiovascular events
Disease-Free Survival
Humans
Incidence
Japan - epidemiology
Male
Middle Aged
Myocardial infarction
Myocardial Infarction - complications
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors
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Summary:Background In Western countries, many studies have shown that among healthy people moderate drinkers have a lower incidence of cardiovascular events than abstainers and heavy drinkers. However, it is not clear whether this is true in patients with a healed myocardial infarction (MI). Methods and Results In the present study cardiovascular events were defined as cardiac events or strokes. Male patients only were included because the incidence of cardiovascular events is low in females. In patients younger than 65 years, the incidence of cardiovascular events was 34.6 persons per year (54 cases: 3.9%) of abstainers, 17.4 persons per year (20 cases: 1.9%) of moderate drinkers (p
ISSN:1346-9843
1347-4820
DOI:10.1253/circj.70.1263