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Alcohol linked to decreased hypertension risk in young women.(Brief Article)
2002 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Moderate alcohol consumption can lead to a reduced risk of developing hypertension in young women, according to researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). The study results, published in the March 11, 2002 Archives of Internal Medicine, use data from the Nurses' Health Study II, which is based at BWH.
"For women in their 20s to 40s, we found that alcohol intake at moderate levels was beneficial to blood pressure and at high levels it was harmful," said Ravi Thadhani, MD, MPH, of the renal unit at MGH and the Channing Laboratory at BWH, the paper's lead author. Thadhani and his colleagues found that the association between alcohol consumption and risk of chronic hypertension in young women follows what is called a J-shaped curve: light drinkers had a decreased risk compared with nondrinkers, but heavier drinkers had an increased risk.
Thadhani and his team gathered data from more than 70,000 women ages 25 to 42 years old at the study's outset in 1989, who did not report having hypertension during the study's early years. After 8 years of follow-up, the scientists found that women who drank about two or three drinks a week had a risk of developing hypertension about 15% lower than that of nondrinkers. However, women who drank on average more than 10 or 12 drinks per week had a 30% increased risk of developing the condition.
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