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Cairns, V. ; Keil, U. ; Kleinbaum, D.G. ; Doering, A.* ; Stieber, J.*

Alcohol consumption as a risk factor for high blood pressure. Munich blood pressure study.

Hypertension 6, 124-131 (1984)
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The Munich Blood Pressure Study (MBS), a 1980-81 cross-sectional study (with follow-up) of a random sample of 3198 Munich citizens aged 30-69 years (response rate 69%), revealed hypertensive blood pressure (BP) values in 17.7% of men and 10.7% of women (WHO criteria). One of the main goals of the MBS was to search for social, behavioral, and environmental risk factors for hypertension. The relationship between BP and five possible risk factors - alcohol consumption (g/day), cigarette smoking, oral contraceptive use, years of education, obesity (BMI) - has been examined. The major emphasis of this report is the relationship of alcohol consumption to BP. Multiple linear and logistic regression analyses were run controlling for both age and sex. All second- and third-order interactions between the independent variables were tested during a backward stepping procedure. Alcohol consumption appeared as a significant main effect in many of the analyses. The coefficient of the alcohol variable ranged from 0.02 to 0.06 for men and women in the separate linear regression analyses for systolic and diastolic BP. Thus, for example, according to the model, the daily consumption of 1 liter of beer (40 g alcohol) may cause an increase in diastolic BP in women of 2.4 mm Hg.
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Publikationstyp Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Korrespondenzautor
ISSN (print) / ISBN 0194-911x
e-ISSN 1524-4563
Zeitschrift Hypertension
Quellenangaben Band: 6, Heft: 1, Seiten: 124-131 Artikelnummer: , Supplement: ,
Verlag Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Nichtpatentliteratur Publikationen
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed
Institut(e) Department for Medical Information Systems (MEDIS)