Case-control studies of consumption of specific types of alcoholic drink and relative risk of coronary heart disease
| Wine | Beer | Spirits | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Study | Consumption | Relative risk | Consumption | Relative risk | Consumption | Relative risk | Comment | ||||||
| Hennekens et al 197916 | |||||||||||||
| 1136 Men aged 30-70 (568 died from coronary heart disease, 568 controls) in Boston, USA | Total alcohol (oz/day): | Total alcohol (oz/day): | Total alcohol (oz/day): | Adjusted for cigarette smoking,previous hospitalisation for congestive heart failure, religion,and relative weight | |||||||||
| 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 1.0 | ||||||||
| </=2 | 0.3 (P<0.001) | </=2 | 0.3 (P<0.001) | </=2 | 0.2 (P<0.001) | ||||||||
| >2 | 1.0 | >2 | 1.0 | >2 | 1.1 | ||||||||
| Rosenberg et al 198117 | |||||||||||||
| 1431 Women aged <50 (513 with myocardial infarction, 918 hospital controls) in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, USA | None | 1.0 | None | 1.0 | None | 1.0 | Results not materially altered when crude odds ratio adjusted for confounders. Women who drank more than one drink type had relative risk of 0.6 | ||||||
| Only drink wine 0.4 (P<0.001) Only drink beer | 0.8 | Only drink spirits | 0.9 | ||||||||||
| Kaufman et al 198518 | |||||||||||||
| 3151 Men aged <55 (2170 with non-fatal myocardial infarction,981 hospital controls) in northeastern USA | Total alcohol (oz/week): | Total alcohol (oz/week): | Total alcohol (oz/week): | Adjusted for age and smoking | |||||||||
| 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 1.0 | ||||||||
| <5 | 1.2 | <5 | 1.3 | <5 | 1.1 | ||||||||
| 5-9 | 1.8 | 5-9 | 1.1 | 5-9 | 1.3 | ||||||||
| 10-19 | 2.4 | 10-19 | 1.2 | 10-19 | 1.7 | ||||||||
| >/=20 | >/=20 | 1.1 | >/=20 | 1.0 | |||||||||
1 oz alcohol=28.3g.