Prior Alcohol Consumption and Mortality Following Acute Myocardial Infarction

Abstract

Self-reported moderate alcohol consumption in the year prior to AMI is associated with reduced mortality following infarction.

The Effect of Alcoholic Beverage Type on Hyperuricemia in Japanese Male Office Workers

“…33 Excessive alcohol consumption is also related to stroke and cardiovascular diseases, although moderate alcohol intake might be able to reduce the risk of some diseases, including cardiovascular diseases. [34][35][36][37][38] Our observations support generally reducing intake of alcoholic beverages to prevent hyperuricemia. Such findings will have some impact on the public health policy makers and consumers.…”

Alcohol Use in Elective Total Hip Arthroplasty: Risk or Benefit?

“…Regarding comorbidities and alcohol consumption, we did not find differences among groups on overall health based on comorbidity scores. Our results are not in agreement with previous investigations [6,13] that found beneficial health effects associated with moderate alcohol consumption, in particular, the findings of Di Castelnuovo et al [6] regarding the inverse association of intake with total mortality. Mukamal et al [13] also found self-reported moderate alcohol consumption in the year before acute myocardial infarction was associated with reduced mortality after infarction.…”

“…Gmel et al [8] also found the curve depicting the consumption relationship with mortality was influenced by a combination of beneficial and harmful effects. Mukamal et al [13], in a study on long-term mortality among early survivors of acute myocardial infarction, found, compared with abstainers, patients who consumed fewer than one drink/day had a lower all-cause mortality rate than those who consumed one or more drinks/day.…”

“…The curve that depicts the relationship between alcohol consumption and mortality is influenced by a combination of beneficial and harmful effects [8]. To determine the effects of prior alcohol consumption on longterm mortality among early survivors of acute myocardial infarction, Mukamal et al [13] performed a prospective cohort study with all-cause mortality as the main outcome measure and found, compared with abstainers, patients who consumed fewer than seven drinks/week had a lower allcause mortality rate than those who consumed seven or more drinks/week. Williams et al [18] made use of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-Consumption (AUDIT-C) questionnaire (higher scores signify greater and more frequent alcohol consumption) to evaluate the concurrent association between alcohol screening scores and patient perception of health among male veterans and also found, after adjustment, a quadratic (inverted U-shaped) relationship between AUDIT-C categories and all SF-36 scores such that patients with AUDIT-C scores of 4 to 5 and 6 to 7 reported the highest health status and patients with AUDIT-C scores of 0, 8 to 9, and 10 or more reported the lowest health status.…”

Arthroplasty Knee Surgery and Alcohol Use: Risk Factor or Benefit?

“…Mukamal et al [18] in a prospective cohort study in which the main outcome measure was all-cause mortality found self-reported moderate alcohol consumption in the year before acute myocardial infarction was associated with reduced mortality after infarction. As a consequence of these contradictory reports, in the current study, we investigated whether low or moderate alcohol consumption could be associated with beneficial effects in TKA.…”