Table 4 HRs (95% CI) for alcohol intake and all‐cause mortality, or cardiovascular events without and with exclusion of non‐healthy women.
| Cases/n | Never drinkers | Drinkers of (in glasses/week) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Former drinkers | <1 | 1–6.9 | 7–14.9 | 15–28 | >28 | |||
| All‐cause mortality | ||||||||
| Weekly Recall, no exclusions* | 156/1289 | 1 | 0.79 (0.44 to 1.41) | 1.06 (0.60 to 1.87) | 0.10 (0.05 to 0.22) | 0.23 (0.11 to 0.48) | 0.32 (0.13 to 0.80) | 0.66 (0.18 to 2.41) |
| Weekly Recall, exclusion 1† | 81/936 | 1 | 0.42 (0.13 to 1.31) | 1.41 (0.55 to 3.58) | 0.11 (0.04 to 0.31) | 0.23 (0.08 to 0.70) | 0.25 (0.07 to 0.84) | 0.55 (0.09 to 3.42) |
| Weekly Recall, exclusion 2‡ | 55/563 | 1 | 1.91 (0.61 to 5.92) | 1.74 (0.60 to 5.06) | 0.26 (0.08 to 0.85) | 0.49 (0.13 to 1.80) | 0.85 (0.20 to 3.55) | * |
| QF‐last‐year, no exclusions* | 162/1484 | 1 | 0.77 (0.45 to 1.30) | 0.38 (0.21 to 0.69) | 0.24 (0.13 to 0.45) | 0.22 (0.10 to 0.46) | 0.33 (0.14 to 0.79) | 0.80 (0.33 to 1.93) |
| QF‐last‐year, exclusion 1† | 84/1092 | 1 | 0.46 (0.18 to 1.17) | 0.29 (0.12 to 0.73) | 0.23 (0.09 to 0.56) | 0.19 (0.07 to 0.54) | 0.26 (0.08 to 0.82) | 0.79 (0.21 to 2.98) |
| QF‐last‐year, exclusion 2‡ | 58/673 | 1 | 1.23 (0.41 to 3.68) | 0.71 (0.23 to 2.17) | 0.65 (0.22 to 1.88) | 0.25 (0.06 to 1.06) | 0.77 (0.18 to 3.32) | 1.16 (0.20 to 6.71) |
| All cardiovascular events | ||||||||
| Weekly Recall, no exclusions* | 309/1416 | 1 | 0.81 (0.50 to 1.32) | 1.38 (0.90 to 2.11) | 0.20 (0.12 to 0.33) | 0.19 (0.10 to 0.36) | 0.20 (0.08 to 0.45) | 0.38 (0.10 to 1.45) |
| Weekly Recall, exclusion 1† | 173/1007 | 1 | 1 (0.47 to 2.10) | 1.50 (0.82 to 2.77) | 0.18 (0.09 to 0.36) | 0.19 (0.08 to 0.45) | 0.14 (0.05 to 0.42) | 0.34 (0.07 to 1.74) |
| Weekly Recall, exclusion 2‡ | 88/596 | 1 | 0.47 (0.16 to 1.41) | 1.76 (0.78 to 3.98) | 0.16 (0.06 to 0.40) | 0.12 (0.03 to 0.45) | 0.27 (0.07 to 0.99) | * |
| QF‐last‐year, no exclusions* | 329/1622 | 1 | 0.77 (0.50 to 1.21) | 0.56 (0.36 to 0.89) | 0.43 (0.28 to 0.67) | 0.37 (0.22 to 0.62) | 0.21 (0.09 to 0.48) | 0.14 (0.04 to 0.49) |
| QF‐last‐year, exclusion 1† | 185/1170 | 1 | 0.97 (0.50 to 1.90) | 0.59 (0.31 to 1.12) | 0.43 (0.23 to 0.79) | 0.31 (0.15 to 0.65) | 0.22 (0.08 to 0.60) | 0.16 (0.03 to 0.79) |
| QF‐last‐year, exclusion 2‡ | 96/709 | 1 | 0.54 (0.21 to 1.42) | 0.50 (0.21 to 1.22) | 0.47 (0.21 to 1.06) | 0.32 (0.12 to 0.84) | 0.30 (0.08 to 1.12) | 0.14 (0.01 to 1.57) |
QF‐last‐year, Quantity–Frequency form about last year's consumption.
*Adjusted for age, region, pack‐years, body mass index, fat intake, physical activity, education and income.
†Exclusion 1: exclusion of subjects with poor subjective health, adjusted for age, region, pack‐years, body mass index, fat intake, physical activity, education and income.
‡Exclusion 2: exclusion 1 also with the exclusion of the pre‐existing diseases found to be related to alcohol intake.