Effects of Alcohol Consumption on Cardiovascular Events in Male Patients With Healed Myocardial Infarction
| Autor: | Norio Nishioka, Kinji Ishikawa, Yutaka Hirano, Masaru Miyataka, Takahiro Hayashi, Akio Kimura, Nobutaka Masunaga |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
Male
medicine.medical_specialty Alcohol Drinking Healed myocardial infarction education Myocardial Infarction Disease-Free Survival Japan Risk Factors Internal medicine mental disorders medicine Humans In patient Myocardial infarction Aged Retrospective Studies business.industry Incidence Incidence (epidemiology) Age Factors Retrospective cohort study General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery Lower incidence Cardiovascular Diseases Male patient Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Alcohol consumption |
| Zdroj: | Circulation Journal. 70:1263-1268 |
| ISSN: | 1347-4820 1346-9843 |
| DOI: | 10.1253/circj.70.1263 |
| Popis: | 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 |
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