Table 2.
Relative Risk and 95% CI of Myocardial Infarction and Coronary Heart Disease according to Baseline Alcohol Consumption among N=64,597 Chinese Men.
| Alcohol consumption, Drinks/Week | P for Linear Trend |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-drinkers | 1 to 6 | 7 to 34 | ≥35 | ||
| Person years | 303,016 | 37,483 | 104,463 | 49,122 | |
| MI Incidence | |||||
| No. of Events | 513 | 52 | 121 | 39 | |
| Age-adjusted relative risk | 1.00 | 0.94 (0.70, 1.25) | 0.69 (0.56, 0.84)†† | 0.60 (0.43, 0.84) †† | <.000 |
| Multivariate-adjusted relative risk* | 1.00 | 0.93 (0.70, 1.24) | 0.66 (0.54, 0.82) †† | 0.58 (0.41, 0.81) †† | <.000 |
| MI Mortality | |||||
| No. of Events | 263 | 27 | 53 | 18 | |
| Age-adjusted relative risk | 1.00 | 1.07 (0.72, 1.59) | 0.63 (0.47, 0.85) ‡ | 0.53 (0.32, 0.87) † | 0.0003 |
| Multivariate-adjusted relative risk* | 1.00 | 1.05 (0.70, 1.57) | 0.58 (0.42, 0.79) †† | 0.46 (0.28, 0.76) ‡ | <.0001 |
| CHD Incidence | |||||
| No. of Events | 694 | 71 | 159 | 52 | |
| Age-adjusted relative risk | 1.00 | 0.99 (0.78, 1.28) | 0.70 (0.59, 0.83) †† | 0.61 (0.46, 0.82) †† | <.000 |
| Multivariate-adjusted relative risk* | 1.00 | 0.99 (0.77, 1.27) | 0.67 (0.56, 0.81) †† | 0.58 (0.44, 0.78) †† | <.000 |
| CHD Mortality | |||||
| No. of Events | 426 | 48 | 84 | 30 | |
| Age-adjusted relative risk | 1.00 | 1.21 (0.90, 1.63) | 0.64 (0.50, 0.81) †† | 0.60 (0.41, 0.88) ‡ | <.000 |
| Multivariate-adjusted relative risk* | 1.00 | 1.20 (0.88, 1.62) | 0.59 (0.46, 0.75) †† | 0.53 (0.36, 0.78) ‡ | <.000 |
| CVD Mortality | |||||
| No. of Events | 2,916 | 249 | 746 | 366 | |
| Age-adjusted relative risk | 1.00 | 0.89 (0.79, 1.02) | 0.88 (0.81, 0.96) | 1.02 (0.91, 1.14) | 0.08 |
| Multivariate-adjusted relative risk* | 1.00 | 0.88 (0.77, 1.01) | 0.79 (0.73, 0.86) | 0.86 (0.77, 0.96) | <.0001 |
| Non-CVD Mortality | |||||
| No. of Events | 3,391 | 290 | 956 | 572 | |
| Age-adjusted relative risk | 1.00 | 0.86 (0.76, 0.97) | 0.95 (0.89, 1.03) | 1.18 (1.08, 1.29) | 0.11 |
| Multivariate-adjusted relative risk* | 1.00 | 0.84 (0.74, 0.95) | 0.87 (0.81, 0.94) | 1.05 (0.95, 1.15) | 0.14 |
*
stratified by province and adjusted for age, body-mass index, average systolic blood pressure, physical activity, cigarette smoking, diabetes education, urban or rural residence, and living in North China;
†
p<0.05;
‡
p<0.01;
††
p<0.001