Alcohol intake, specific alcoholic beverages, and risk of hip fractures in postmenopausal women and men age 50 and older.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although a number of studies have examined the association between alcohol intake and hip fractures, few have considered specific alcoholic beverages separately.

Objectives

We prospectively assessed total alcohol and specific alcoholic beverage consumption and risk of hip fractures in US men and women.

Methods

Health, lifestyle information, and hip fractures were self-reported on biennial questionnaires between 1980 and 2014 in 75,180 postmenopausal women from the Nurses' Health Study, and between 1986 and 2014 in 38,398 men aged ≥50 y from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. Diet was assessed approximately every 4 y with a semiquantitative FFQ. RRs were computed for hip fracture using Cox proportional hazards models, adjusting for potential confounde

SUBMITTER: Fung TT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6736105 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature