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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 142, No. 10: 1034-1038
Copyright © 1995 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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Association of the Waist-to-Hip Ratio Is Different with Wine than with Beer or Hard Liquor Consumption

Bruce B. Duncan1,2, L. E. Chambless3, Maria Inês Schmidt1,2, Aaron R. Folsom5, Moyses Szklo6, John R. Crouse, III4 and Myra A. Carpenter3

Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study Investigators
1Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC
3Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC
4Department of Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC
5Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN
6Department of Epidemiology, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD

Specific alcoholic beverage associations with the waist-to-hip ratio were characterized in 12,145 African-American and white men and women ages 45–64 years. Estimated waist-to-hip ratios of those consuming more than six nonwine alcohol drinks/week and more than six wine drinks/week (vs. nondrinkers) were 0.007 larger (p <0.001) and 0.009 smaller (p <0.05), respectively. In similar comparisons, the odds ratios for a large waist-to-hip ratio were 1.4 (95% confidence interval 1.1–1.7) for nonwine and 0.45 (95% confidence interval 0.21–0.95) for wine intake. The opposite direction in adjusted associations for wine and nonwine (mainly beer) drinking supports the popular concept of the "beer belly." Am J Epidemiol 1995;142:1034–8.

alcohol,; ethyl; beer; cardiovascular diseases; epidemiologic factors; obesity; wine


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