ArticleAmerican journal of hypertension2014
Alcohol consumption and ambulatory blood pressure: a community-based study in an elderly cohort.
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- Alcohol Intake and Blood Pressure Levels: A Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Nonexperimental Cohort Studies.Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2023Pooled it
- Effect of alcohol on blood pressure.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Positive association between ALDH2 rs671 polymorphism and essential hypertension: A case-control study and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2017Pooled it
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- Alcohol consumption and ambulatory blood pressure-lowering effect in male patients on clinic blood pressure-guided antihypertensive treatment.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2025Trial
- Differential Effect of Initiating Moderate Red Wine Consumption on 24-h Blood Pressure by Alcohol Dehydrogenase Genotypes: Randomized Trial in Type 2 Diabetes.American journal of hypertension · 2016Trial
- The significance of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring for evaluating circadian blood pressure variations affected by alcohol consumption.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2025Article
- Effects of at-risk alcohol use on nighttime blood pressure, urinary catecholamines, and sleep quality in midlife adults.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Article
- 2023 Guideline for the management of hypertension in the elderly population in China.Journal of geriatric cardiology : JGC · 2024Article
- Mediterranean lifestyle index and 24-h systolic blood pressure and heart rate in community-dwelling older adults.GeroScience · 2024Article
- Alcohol Use and Blood Pressure Among Older Couples: The Moderating Role of Negative Marital Quality.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2022Article
- The interactive association between sodium intake, alcohol consumption and hypertension among elderly in northern China: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
- Blood pressure variability, likelihood ratios, and other necessary considerations when assessing self-reported hypertension status.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2020Article
- Association of Liver Transaminase Levels and Long-Term Blood Pressure Variability in Military Young Males: The CHIEF Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Alternate mechanisms and considerations for alcohol's effect on salt sensitivity.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2020Article
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- Risk factors of the progression to hypertension and characteristics of natural history during progression: A national cohort study.PloS one · 2020Article
- Health Behaviors, Nocturnal Hypertension, and Non-dipping Blood Pressure: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults and Jackson Heart Study.American journal of hypertension · 2019Article
- 2019 Chinese guideline for the management of hypertension in the elderly.Journal of geriatric cardiology : JGC · 2019Article
- Alcohol and cardiovascular disease in the geriatric population.Clinical cardiology · 2017Review
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Abstract
backgroundAlthough heavy alcohol consumption is associated with hypertension, the impact of lighter consumption on blood pressure (BP) is controversial. The protective effect of light alcohol consumption on cardiovascular disease described in previous studies could be, in part, mediated by effects of alcohol on BP. However, only a few studies investigating the association between alcohol and BP included elderly subjects, despite their higher risk of hypertension sequelae. Accordingly, we evaluated the relationship between alcohol consumption and 24-hour ambulatory BP in a community-based elderly cohort.
methodsAmong the participants in the Cardiac Abnormalities and Brain Lesion study, 553 subjects (mean age = 70.6 ± 9.6 years) who underwent 24-hour ambulatory BP monitoring were examined. Alcohol consumption was categorized as (i) none (reference; <1 drink/month); (ii) very light consumption (1 drink/month to 1 drink/week); (iii) light consumption (2 drinks/week to 1 drink/day); (iv) moderate-to-heavy consumption (>1 drink/day). Former drinkers were excluded.
resultsAfter adjustment for relevant covariables, mean values of daytime diastolic BP (DBP), nighttime DBP, and 24-hour DBP were significantly higher in moderate-to-heavy drinkers than in the reference group, whereas systolic BP parameters were not significantly different across consumption groups. Daytime systolic BP and DBP variability (SD of the measurements) were significantly lower in very light drinkers than in the reference group, independent of potential confounders.
conclusionsModerate-to-heavy alcohol consumption was associated with higher DBP values. Very light alcohol consumption was associated with reduced daytime BP variability. The latter association may contribute to the known beneficial cardiovascular effects of light alcohol consumption.
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