Prevention & lipidsCohort study
Alcohol Consumption and Incident Heart Failure in Men and Women
- Prospective cohort study
- UK Biobank
- competing-risk model
- cubic spline regression
Authors' conclusion
Alcohol consumption was higher among men compared with women. Although low to moderate total alcohol consumption appears to be associated with a reduced risk of developed HF, beer drinkers, particularly women, were at higher risk of developed HF.
Study context
- Population
- UK Biobank participants without a history of heart failure (HF) at baseline who completed alcohol questionnaires (52% women, age 56 years)
- Participants
- 407,014 participants
- Exposure
- Levels of alcohol consumption and incident HF, by sex
- Outcome
- Incident HF
- Follow-up
- Median 12 years
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Incident HF by total alcohol consumption
Incident HF cases (34% women)
11 735
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Total alcohol consumption, men vs women
P < 0.001
Wine consumption and incident HF
- Similar trends to total alcohol consumption
Beer consumption and incident HF
- 7-14 units/week of beer in women: increased risk of incident HF
- 29%
- HF risk increases with beer consumption, particularly in women
- p for sex interaction = 0.002
Original publication
Alcohol Consumption and Incident Heart Failure in Men and Women. Eur J Heart Fail. Published 20 January 2025. doi:10.1002/ejhf.3587
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it