Alcohol Intake and Blood Pressure Levels: A Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Nonexperimental Cohort Studies 🔓

Hypertension

Employing a systematic search of longitudinal studies, the authors investigated links between blood pressure and alcohol intake. A considerable linear positive association was found between baseline alcohol intake and changes over time in both systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP). Average SBP was 1.25 and 4.90 mm Hg higher for 12 or 48 grams of alcohol compared with no drinking. The differences were for DBP were 1.14 and 3.10 mm Hg. There was no evidence of a threshold for this connection. 

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