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. 2015 Jan 20;36(15):939–945. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehu514

Table 4.

Twenty-year risk of incident heart failure and death by alcohol consumption category, by sex

20-year risk HF (%)	Number of drinks per week
20-year risk HF (%)	Former drinkers	Abstainers	<7	≥7–14	≥14–21	≥21
Men
HF (primary results)^a	0.17 (0.14, 0.19)	0.14 (ref)	0.12 (0.10, 0.14)	0.13 (0.11, 0.16)	0.13 (0.10, 0.16)	0.14 (0.11, 0.18)
HF (competing risk^b)	0.14 (0.12, 0.16)	0.13 (ref)	0.11 (0.09, 0.12)	0.12 (0.10, 0.15)	0.12 (0.09, 0.16)	0.12 (0.09, 0.15)
Death	0.29 (0.27, 0.32)	0.24 (ref)	0.23 (0.21, 0.26)	0.26 (0.23, 0.29)	0.23 (0.19, 0.27)	0.31 (0.27, 0.36)
Women
HF (primary results)^a	0.12 (0.10, 0.14)	0.10 (ref)	0.09 (0.07, 0.10)	0.09 (0.07, 0.13)	0.12 (0.07, 0.20)	0.07 (0.03, 0.19)
HF (competing risk^b)	0.11 (0.10, 0.13)	0.10 (ref)	0.08 (0.07, 0.10)	0.08 (0.06, 0.11)	0.11 (0.06, 0.17)	0.06 (0.02, 0.15)
Death	0.17 (0.16, 0.19)	0.15 (ref)	0.16 (0.14, 0.17)	0.17 (0.14, 0.20)	0.19 (0.13, 0.26)	0.26 (0.17, 0.38)

^aCensoring patient follow-up at time of death.

^bAccounting for the competing risk of non-HF death.