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Alcohol Consumption in Relation to Factors Associated with Ischemic Heart Disease - A Cotwin Control Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Marten Myrhed  and
Birgitta Floderus
Marten Myrhed*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Serafimer Hospital, and Department of Environmental Hygiene, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Birgitta Floderus
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Serafimer Hospital, and Department of Environmental Hygiene, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
*
Department of Clinical Alcohol and Drug Research, Karolinska Hospital, S-104 01 Stockholm 60, Sweden

Abstract

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Moderately alcohol-discordant male twin pairs, aged 45-65 years, have been examined with respect to ischemic heart disease (IHD) and associated factors. No conclusion can yet be drawn with regard to manifest or subclinical IHD, while significant disparities were found with regard to systolic and diastolic blood pressures, high cigarette consumption, hyperglycemia, and serum cholesterol; the greater number of findings of pathological values were found in the high alcohol-consumption as compared to the low alcohol-consumption cotwins. These findings offer a possible explanation for the increased number of reports showing a connection between high consumption of alcohol and occurrence of ischemic heart disease.

Type
4. The Cotwin Method and Experimental Science
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , January 1976 , pp. 129 - 132
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1976

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