Wine and good subjective health
Article Abstract:
A study has found that subjects of either sex who drank no wine were more likely to have suboptimal health, subjectively evaluated, than those who drank 1-4 drinks of wine in 7 days and that among male subjects who had 10 or more drinks of wine or liquor in 7 days reports of suboptimal health were more prevalent. Associations of subjective, self-rated suboptimal, that is average or poor, health with intake of wine, beer, and liquor and intoxication from drinking alcohol was studied in 1992 in a general population sample with 6,040 subjects in Finland. Odds ratios were adjusted for several possible confounders using logistic regression analysis. A drink was considered one containing about 12 g of alcohol. Correlation between the alcohol intake of the last week and the 12-month alcohol intake estimate was first evaluated.
Publication Name: American Journal of Epidemiology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-9262
Year: 1999
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Illustration of analysis taking into account complex survey consideration: the association between wine consumption and dementia in the PAQUID study
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Epidemiologists are increasingly using sample surveys to provide information on associations between suspected risk factors and diseases. They use software packages to analyze their data. However, some statistical analyses can be incorrect because they are as a result of simple random samples. Modern statistical packages with the capability of survey analysis should encourage researchers to perform design-based analyses.
Publication Name: American Journal of Epidemiology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-9262
Year: 1998
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Inverse graded relation between alcohol consumption and active infection with Helicobacter pylori
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Drinking certain alcoholic beverages may reduce the risk of Helicobacter pylori infection. Researchers found an inverse graded relation between regular alcohol intake of more tha 75 g per week and active H. pylori infection among 425 healthy people studied. The effect was especially strong when the beverage of choice was wine.
Publication Name: American Journal of Epidemiology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-9262
Year: 1999
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