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The cardioprotective effects of alcohol consumption: does cardiac autonomic function play a role?

Author(s) -

Annie Britton,

Marek Malik,

Michael Marmot

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

european journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.825

H-Index - 111

eISSN - 1573-7284

pISSN - 0393-2990

DOI - 10.1007/s10654-007-9213-3

Subject(s) - medicine , alcohol consumption , autonomic nervous system , alcohol , epidemiology , autonomic function , multivariate analysis , heart rate variability , cardiology , cardiac function curve , public health , heart rate , environmental health , physiology , heart failure , blood pressure , pathology , biochemistry , chemistry

Moderate alcohol consumption has cardioprotective properties and several mechanisms have been proposed. In over 4,000 men and women from the Whitehall II study, mean heart rate variability levels were lowest among those consuming the most alcohol per week, but in multivariate analyses no statistical associations were found. The cardiac autonomic nervous system is unlikely to explain much of the cardioprotective properties of alcohol.

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