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© 1987 Oxford University Press

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Alcohol Consumption, Drinking Pattern and Blood Pressure: Analysis of Data from the Italian National Research Council Study

MAURIZIO TREVISAN*,{dagger}, VITTORIO KROGH*, EDUARDO FARINARO*, SALVATORE PANICO*, MARIO MANCINI* and On behalf of the Research Group ATS-RF2 of the Italian National Research Council{ddagger}

* Institute of Internal Medicine and Metabolic Diseases, 2nd Medical School, University of Naples Italy

{dagger} Present address: Department of Social and Preventive Medicine. State University of New York at Buffalo, 2211 Main Street, Buffalo NY 14214. USA.

The present analyses addressed the relationship between alcohol consumption, drinking patterns and hypertension in 6699 Italian men and women participating in a national project on arteriosclerosis risk factors. The results of the analyses are consistent with an association between heavy alcohol consumption and systolic blood pressure in both males and females. Higher diastolic blood pressure was associated with heavy alcohol consumption in men but not in women. Drinkers of wine both with and without meals have a higher prevalence of hypertension than abstainers in both sexes. We conclude that heavy alcohol consumption is associated with higher blood pressure values, and that the pattern of drinking could be an important determinant in the association between alcohol and hypertension.

Received 1 October 1986


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