Table 3.

Rate Ratios and 95% CIs for Incident HF by Average Baseline Beer, Wine and Spirits Consumption among 33,760 Men in the Cohort of Swedish Men

Beer				Wine				Spirits

Drinks/ Week	Cases	Person- Years	Rate Ratio (95% CI)	Drinks/ Week	Cases	Person- Years	Rate Ratio (95% CI)	Drinks/ Week	Cases	Person- Years	Rate Ratio (95% CI)
Non beer drinker	352	31,689	1.00 (ref)	Non wine drinker	942	99,975	1.00 (ref)	Non spirits drinker	770	83,708	1.00 (ref)
<0.5	287	36,264	1.02 (0.87, 1.20)	<0.5	728	110,193	0.92 (0.83, 1.03)	<0.5	824	143,347	0.90 (0.81, 1.01)
0.5–<1	312	43,735	0.91 (0.78, 1.07)	0.5–<1	263	13,257	0.97 (0.84, 1.13)	0.5–<1	374	52,895	0.97 (0.84, 1.11)
1–<7	1620	263,110	0.90 (0.79, 1.03)	1–<7	881	192,636	0.89 (0.80, 1.00)	1–<7	891	146,424	0.89 (0.80, 1.01)
7–<14	284	47,137	0.87 (0.73, 1.03)	7–<14	88	12,693	0.99 (0.79, 1.25)	≥7^*	57	3834	1.27 (0.96, 1.69)
≥14^*	61	8273	0.92 (0.70, 1.22)	≥14^*	14	1454	1.16 (0.68, 1.98)
p for quadratic trend			0.11				0.09				0.02

CI indicates confidence interval.

Cox proportional hazards model accounting for age and adjusted for total energy intake (linear term), education (less than high school, high school, university), body mass index (linear term), dietary component score (quartiles), cigarette smoking (current, past, never), marital status (single, married/living with someone, divorced, widower). Each model also mutually adjusted for other consumption of other two beverage types.

Non-drinkers include never consumers of an alcohol and current alcohol drinkers that are not consuming the specific beverage of interest (e.g., beer).

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Among those consuming:

≥14 standard drinks of beer per week, median weekly standard drinks of total alcohol: 21.2, of beer: 17.3;
≥14 standard drinks of wine per week, median weekly standard drinks of total alcohol: 26.9, of wine: 16.2;
≥7 standard drinks of spirits per week, median weekly standard drinks of total alcohol: 20.0, of spirits: 9.6.