Chunk #35 — Results — Alcohol consumption and ischaemic heart disease in Belfast versus France

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Patterns of alcohol consumption and ischaemic heart disease in culturally divergent countries: the Prospective Epidemiological Study of Myocardial Infarction (PRIME).

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After multivariate adjustment for classic risk factors and alcohol consumption, the hazard ratio for hard coronary events among regular drinkers in Belfast compared with the French centres was notably reduced, from 1.61 (95% CI 1.16 to 2.22) to 1.02 (95% CI 0.66 to 1.57).