SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research Journal of Aging Research Volume 2011, Article ID 805062, 10 pages doi:10.4061/2011/805062
Research Article Alcohol Consumption and Risk of All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Men Erin K. Howie,1 Xuemei Sui,1 Duck-chul Lee,1 Steven P. Hooker,1, 2 James R. H´ebert,3 and Steven N. Blair1, 3 1 Department
of Exercise Science, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA Research Center, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA 3 Cancer Prevention and Control Program and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA 2 Prevention
Correspondence should be addressed to Erin K. Howie,
[email protected] Received 26 January 2011; Accepted 9 May 2011 Academic Editor: Leonard W. Poon Copyright © 2011 Erin K. Howie et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This study examined the association between consumption of alcoholic beverages and all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in a cohort of men (n = 31,367). In the Cox proportional hazards model adjusted for age, year of examination, body mass index (BMI), smoking, family history of CVD, and aerobic fitness, there were no significant differences in risk of all-cause mortality across alcohol intake groups. Risk of CVD mortality was reduced 29% in quartile 1 (HR = 0.71, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.53, 0.95) and 25% in quartile 2 (HR = 0.75, 95% CI: 0.58, 0.98). The amount of alcohol consumed to achieve this risk reduction was
