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Alcohol consumption as a risk factor for high blood pressure. Munich blood pressure study.
Hypertension 6, 124-131 (1984)
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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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
ISSN (print) / ISBN
0194-911x
e-ISSN
1524-4563
Journal
Hypertension
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Volume: 6,
Issue: 1,
Pages: 124-131
Publisher
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Reviewing status
Peer reviewed
Institute(s)
Department for Medical Information Systems (MEDIS)