Wine drinking compared to not drinking wine was associated with a lower risk of hard coronary events in regular alcohol drinkers after multivariate adjustment (age, centre, tobacco consumption, years of education, level of physical activity, systolic blood pressure, apolipoprotein A-1, apolipoprotein B, waist circumference, treatment for hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidaemia), whereas no significant association was found for beer compared with no beer or other alcoholic beverages versus no other alcoholic beverages (table 4). Further adjustment for volume of alcohol consumed or for weekly frequency of alcohol consumption did not change the results significantly. Interactions between types of alcohol drinks (wine v beer, wine v other drinks, and beer v other drinks) were not significant. Two by two comparisons showed significant differences in the risk of hard coronary events between wine and beer drinking and between wine and other types of alcohol when all centres were pooled.
