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Open Access 01-12-2013 | Research article

Preference for wine is associated with lower hip fracture incidence in post-menopausal women

Authors: Jessica T Kubo, Marcia L Stefanick, John Robbins, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Mark R Cullen, Matthew Freiberg, Manisha Desai

Published in: BMC Women's Health | Issue 1/2013

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Abstract

Background

Past studies of relationships between alcohol and hip fracture have generally focused on total alcohol consumed and not type of alcohol. Different types of alcohol consist of varying components which may affect risk of hip fracture differentially. This study seeks to examine the relationship between alcohol consumption, with a focus on type of alcohol consumed (e.g. beer, wine, or hard liquor) and hip fracture risk in post-menopausal women.

Methods

The longitudinal cohort consisted of U.S. post-menopausal women aged 50–79 years enrolled between 1993–1998 in the Women’s Health Initiative Clinical Trials and Observational Study (N=115,655).

Results

Women were categorized as non-drinkers, past drinkers, infrequent drinkers and drinkers by preference of alcohol type (i.e. those who preferred wine, beer, hard liquor, or who had no strong preference). Mean alcohol consumption among current drinkers was 3.3 servings per week; this was similar among those who preferred wine, beer and liquor. After adjustment for potential confounders, alcohol preference was strongly correlated with hip fracture risk (p = 0.0167); in particular, women who preferred wine were at lower risk than non-drinkers (OR=0.78; 95% CI 0.64-0.95), past drinkers (OR=0.85; 95% CI 0.72-1.00), infrequent drinkers (OR=0.73; 95% CI 0.61-0.88), hard liquor drinkers (OR=0.87; 95% CI 0.71-1.06), beer drinkers (OR=0.72; 95% CI 0.55-0.95) and those with no strong preference (OR=0.89; 95% CI 0.89; 95% CI 0.73-1.10).

Conclusions

Preference of alcohol type was associated with hip fracture; women who preferentially consumed wine had a lower risk of hip fracture compared to non-drinkers, past drinkers, and those with other alcohol preferences.
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Metadata
Title
Preference for wine is associated with lower hip fracture incidence in post-menopausal women
Authors
Jessica T Kubo
Marcia L Stefanick
John Robbins
Jean Wactawski-Wende
Mark R Cullen
Matthew Freiberg
Manisha Desai
Publication date
01-12-2013
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Women's Health / Issue 1/2013
Electronic ISSN: 1472-6874
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6874-13-36

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