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Associations between metabolic syndrome and its components and alcohol drinking
1Department of Epidemiology, School of Radiation Medicine and Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Aims:
The relationship between alcohol drinking and metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components are not fully confirmed, we examined relationship between alcohol drinking and MetS and its components.
Methods:
2,538 Mongolian people aged 20 or more were included in this study. The data for demographic characteristics, lifestyle factors, family history of hypertension, blood pressure (BP) measurements and physical examination were obtained, and fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and lipids examined for all participants. Associations between MetS and its components and alcohol drinking were analyzed with Logistic regression.
Results:
The risks of MetS associated with alcohol drinking and various drinking volume were not significant after adjustment for other variables. Alcohol drinking was significantly and positively associated with high BP and high TG, the multivariate adjusted OR (95% CI) of high BP and high TG for drinking were 1.399(1.109, 1.764) and 2.464(1.866, 3.252), respectively, compared with no drinking. However, drinking was inversely associated with low HDL-C, the multivariate adjusted OR (95% CI) of low HDL-C was 0.597(0.479, 0.745) for alcohol drinking compared with no drinking.
Conclusions:
Alcohol drinking was significantly and positively associated with high BP and high TG, while alcohol drinking inversely associated with low HDL-C.
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