Association between alcohol consumption and subclinical femoral atherosclerosis in smoking and non-smoking men: the AWHS study
Autor: | Alejandro Pérez-Esteban, Rocío Mateo-Gallego, Fernando Civeira, Belén Moreno-Franco, Martín Laclaustra, Sara Malo, Pilar Guallar-Castillón, José A. Casasnovas, Estíbaliz Jarauta |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Alcohol Drinking 030508 substance abuse Medicine (miscellaneous) Alcohol Femoral artery Disease Cigarette Smoking 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors medicine.artery Internal medicine medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Subclinical infection business.industry Odds ratio Middle Aged Atherosclerosis Confidence interval Femoral Artery Psychiatry and Mental health Cross-Sectional Studies chemistry Spain 0305 other medical science business Alcohol consumption Alcohol Abstinence |
Zdroj: | Addiction (Abingdon, England)References. 115(9) |
ISSN: | 1360-0443 |
Popis: | BACKGROUND AND AIMS Many addictive substances, such as tobacco and alcohol, influence atherosclerosis development. Whether or not tobacco's pro-atherosclerotic effect is influenced by alcohol consumption is unknown. We aimed to estimate the impact of alcohol intake on the presence of subclinical atherosclerosis in femoral arteries in smoking and non-smoking middle-aged men. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Cross-sectional analysis of a subset of the Aragon Workers Health Study (AWHS), comprising 2099 men with mean age 50.9 years without previous cardiovascular disease. MEASUREMENTS The presence of plaques in femoral arteries was assessed by high-resolution sonography. Self-reported alcohol consumption over the previous year was measured with a food frequency questionnaire. The sample was divided into four groups according to their daily grams of alcohol consumption ≤ 1 (abstainers), ≥ 2 to |
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