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Drinking Excess Alcohol Increases Odds For Diabetes In Men, Not Women.
2001 NOV 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - The results of an eight-year community health study have demonstrated a distinct relationship between alcohol use and the risk for type 2 diabetes in middle-age men but not women.
More than 12,000 middle-age males and females participated in the multicenter Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, where researchers tracked study participants' alcohol consumption and other health risk factors over a period of several years. W.H. Linda Kao, Johns Hopkins University, and study colleagues reported in the October 2001 edition of American Journal of Epidemiology that excess, but not moderate levels, of alcohol consumption could increase a man's chances for developing type 2 diabetes.
"Alcohol consumption at baseline was characterized into lifetime abstainers, former drinkers, and current drinkers of various levels," explained Kao and coworkers. "After adjustment for potential confounders, an increased risk for diabetes was found in men who drank >21 drinks/week when compared with men who drank less than or equal to1 drink/week (odds ratio=1.50, CI: 1.02, 2.20) while no significant association was found in women."
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