Effects of Alcohol Drinking Frequency and Foods Consumed Along with Alcohol on Anthropometry, Serum Lipid Levels, and Blood Pressure in Male Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
- Author:
In Bin CHUNG
1
;
Namsoo CHANG
Author Information
1. Department of Clinical Nutrition, Graduate School of Clinical Health Sciences, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
alcohol drinking;
BMI;
WHR;
blood lipid levels;
blood pressure;
diabetes mellitus
- MeSH:
Aged;
Alcohol Drinking;
Anthropometry;
Blood Pressure;
Body Weight;
Diabetes Mellitus;
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2;
Diet;
Drinking;
Energy Intake;
Humans;
Male;
Waist Circumference
- From:The Korean Journal of Nutrition
2008;41(4):317-326
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
This study was performed to investigate the effects of alcohol drinking frequency and foods consumed along with alcohol on anthropometry, serum lipid levels, and blood pressures in 73 male type 2 diabetic patients aged 30-59 years old. Dietary data for usual intake were obtained from the subjects by the 3-day food records. Separate data for foods consumed along with alcohol as accompaniment were collected and analyzed for energy and nutrient intakes. Both alcohol drinking frequency and/or the amount of energy consumed from accompaniment influenced clinical data as well as anthropometric measurements. The serum total- and HDL-cholesterol, triglyceride levels and systolic blood pressure were significantly higher in the group with a drinking frequency of > or = 2/week than that of < or = 1/week and also in the group whose daily energy intake from accompaniment was greater than the median (106.6 kcal/d) than that below the median. When the data were adjusted for age, amount of energy intake from alcohol and diet, the anothropometric measurements such as body weight, BMI, waist circumference were significantly higher in patients whose energy intake from accompaniment was greater than the median than that below the median. The results of our study suggest that both alcohol drinking frequency and the energy intake from foods consumed along with alcohol as accompanements are important contributing factors to clinical and anthropometric parameters whose associations with the cardiovascular complications are well established in patients with diabetes mellitus.
