ArticleBMJ open2016
Alcohol consumption over time and mortality in the Swedish Women's Lifestyle and Health cohort.
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- A burden of proof study on alcohol consumption and ischemic heart disease.Nature communications · 2024Pooled it
- Association Between Daily Alcohol Intake and Risk of All-Cause Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses.JAMA network open · 2023Pooled it
- [Low-risk alcohol drinking limits based on associated mortality.]Revista espanola de salud publica · 2020Pooled it
- Health effects associated with alcohol consumption: a Burden of Proof study.Nature health · 2026Article
- Swedish women with alcohol dependence: survival and cause-specific mortality compared with matched controls.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Alcohol consumption trajectories and associated factors in adult women: the Norwegian Women and Cancer study.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2025Article
- Sustained Hypothetical Interventions on Midlife Alcohol Consumption in Relation to All-Cause and Cancer Mortality: The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health.American journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Alcohol Consumption in Later Life and Mortality in the United States: Results from 9 Waves of the Health and Retirement Study.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2019Article
- Risk of lung cancer and physical activity by smoking status and body mass index, the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study.European journal of epidemiology · 2019Article
- Role of cytokines and chemokines in alcohol-induced tumor promotion.OncoTargets and therapy · 2017Review
- Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: Updated review of contemporary guidance and literature.JRSM cardiovascular diseaseReview
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Abstract
backgroundAlcohol consumption is steadily increasing in high-income countries but the harm and possible net benefits of light-to-moderate drinking remain controversial. We prospectively investigated the association between time-varying alcohol consumption and overall and cause-specific mortality among middle-aged women.
methodsAmong 48 249 women at baseline (33 404 at follow-up) in the prospective Swedish Women's Lifestyle and Health cohort, age 30-49 years at baseline, we used repeated information on alcohol consumption and combined this method with multiple imputation in order to maximise the number of participants and deaths included in the analyses. Multivariable Cox regression models were used to calculate HRs for overall and cause-specific mortality.
resultsDuring >900 000 person/years, a total of 2100 deaths were recorded through Swedish registries. The median alcohol consumption increased from 2.3 g/day in 1991/1992 (baseline) to 4.7 g/day in 2004 (follow-up). Compared with light drinkers (0.1-1.5 g/day), a null association was observed for all categories of alcohol consumption with the exception of never drinkers. The HR comparing never with light drinkers was 1.46 (95% CI 1.22 to 1.74). There was a statistically significant negative trend between increasing alcohol consumption and cardiovascular and ischaemic heart diseases mortality. The results were similar when women with prevalent conditions were excluded.
conclusionsIn conclusion, in a cohort of young women, light alcohol consumption was protective for cardiovascular and ischaemic heart disease mortality but not for cancer and overall mortality.
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