Midlife Alcohol Consumption and the Risk of Stroke in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Alcohol consumption is common in the United States and may confer beneficial cardiovascular effects at light-to-moderate doses. The alcohol-stroke relationship remains debated. We estimated the relationship between midlife, self-reported alcohol consumption and ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) in a biracial cohort.

Methods

We examined 12,433 never and current drinkers in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, aged 45 to 64 years at baseline. Participants self-reported usual drinks per week of beer, wine, and liquor at baseline. We used multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression to assess the association of current alcohol consumption relative to lifetime abstention with incident ischemic stroke and ICH and modification b

SUBMITTER: Jones SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4725192 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature