{"id":818,"date":"2007-05-01T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaydub.cms-devl.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/2007\/01\/01\/does-moderate-drinking-lower-risk-of-heart-failure\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T11:46:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T16:46:49","slug":"does-moderate-drinking-lower-risk-of-heart-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/2007\/05\/01\/does-moderate-drinking-lower-risk-of-heart-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Moderate Drinking Lower Risk of Heart Failure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"research-summary-body\">\n                    <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name=\"contents\" --><\/p>\n<p>To examine the association between moderate drinking and heart failure, researchers assessed data from 21,601 male participants in the Physicians\u2019 Health Study who were free of heart failure at that study\u2019s baseline. Analyses were adjusted for potential confounders (i.e., age, smoking, body mass index, and valvular heart disease).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During an average follow-up of 18 years, 904 incident cases of heart failure occurred.\n<\/li>\n<li> The risk of heart failure decreased as drinking increased  (hazard ratios,   0.9 for 1\u20134 drinks per week, 0.8 for 5\u20137 drinks per week, and 0.6 for &gt;7 drinks per week versus &lt;1 drink per week; <em>P<\/em> for trend=0.01).\n<\/li>\n<li> Drinking was not significantly associated with the risk of heart failure in subjects without antecedent myocardial infarction or coronary artery disease (CAD).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- InstanceEndEditable --><\/p>\n<div class=\"research-summary-footnotes-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name=\"footnotes-1\" --><!-- InstanceEndEditable -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"research-summary-comments\">Comments:<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name=\"comments\" --><\/p>\n<p>These results support what many, but not all, recent prospective epidemiological studies have shown: a reduced risk of heart failure among moderate drinkers in comparison with nondrinkers (or, as in this study, occasional drinkers). This lower risk was found primarily in patients with heart failure and CAD, and therefore may result from alcohol\u2019s protective effects on myocardial infarction or other consequences of CAD. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<!-- InstanceEndEditable --><br \/>\n                    <cite><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name=\"name\" -->R. Curtis Ellison, MD <!-- InstanceEndEditable --><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/cite><\/p>\n<div class=\"research-summary-footnotes\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name=\"footnotes\" --><!-- InstanceEndEditable -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<h2>Reference:<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name=\"reference\" --><\/p>\n<p>Djouss\u00e9 L, Gaziano JM. <a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/115\/1\/34?maxtoshow=&amp;HITS=10&amp;hits=10&amp;RESULTFORMAT=&amp;fulltext=djousse&amp;searchid=1&amp;FIRSTINDEX=0&amp;resourcetype=HWCIT\" target=\"_blank\">Alcohol consumption and risk of heart failure in the Physicians\u2019 Health Study I<\/a>. <em>Circulation<\/em>. 2007;115(1):34\u201339.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\t    <!-- InstanceEndEditable -->\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To examine the association between moderate drinking and heart failure, researchers assessed data from 21,601 male participants in the Physicians\u2019 Health Study who were free of heart failure at that study\u2019s baseline. Analyses were adjusted for potential confounders (i.e., age, smoking, body mass index, and valvular heart disease). During an average follow-up of 18 years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2963,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/2963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aodhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}