Binge drinking and risk of ischemic heart disease and stroke: a study of pooled Norwegian health surveys.

Norwegian health survey data (1987 - 2003) were analysed to determine if binge drinking increases the risk of incident major events from ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke. Among current drinkers reporting average alcohol intakes between 2 to 60 g/day (n = 44,476), frequent binge drinking (5+ units ≥ once per month) was not associated with a greater risk of IHD (adjusted hazard ratio = 0.91, 95% confidence interval: 0.76, 1.09) nor stroke (adjusted hazard ratio = 0.98, 95% confidence interval: 0.81, 1.19), in comparison with participants who reported that they never or only infrequently (

Keywords:

• Demography
• Hazard ratio
• Confidence interval
• Medicine
• Disease
• Lower risk
• Stroke
• Binge drinking
• Observational study
• Norwegian

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