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Alcohol Consumption and Adiposity: A Longitudinal Analysis of 45,399 UK Biobank Participants

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  • Elif Inan-Eroglu

    (Charles Perkins Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2050, Australia
    Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, 14558 Nuthetal, Germany)

  • Bo-Huei Huang

    (Charles Perkins Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2050, Australia)

  • Mark Hamer

    (Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK)

  • Annie Britton

    (Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK)

  • Emmanuel Stamatakis

    (Charles Perkins Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2050, Australia)

Abstract

The evidence on the association between alcohol consumption and adiposity is inconsistent and fragmented. We investigated the longitudinal association between alcohol consumption pattern and four different adiposity markers with repeated measures of adiposity and obesity incidence. We categorized current drinkers based on the sex-specific quartiles of their weekly alcohol consumption and the UK alcohol drinking guidelines. We used multivariable adjusted generalised linear models. With the exception of a direct association between alcohol volume and body fat percentage (BF%) in women (B = 0.42%; 95%CI: 0.04, 0.80% for women in the top quartile), we found no associations between alcohol consumption and adiposity markers for either sex. Red wine and champagne/white wine consumption were inversely associated with waist circumference (WC) for both sexes (B = −0.58 cm, 95%CI: −0.77, −0.38 cm and B= −0.49 cm, 95%CI: −0.68, −0.29 cm, respectively, for women; B = −0.28 cm, 95%CI: −0.47, −0.08 cm and B = −0.23 cm, 95%CI: −0.42, −0.04 cm, respectively, for men). Female and male spirit drinkers had higher WC than non-spirit drinkers. Alcohol consumption was associated with a lower risk of obesity incidence in women (OR:0.60, 95%CI:0.45, 0.80 for the 2nd quartile, OR:0.53, 95%CI: 0.40, 0.70 for the 3rd quartile and OR:0.61, 95%CI:0.46, 0.80 for the 4th quartile). We found limited evidence of longitudinal associations between alcohol intake and adiposity. The few statistically significant associations we observed are unlikely to be of clinical importance.

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  • Elif Inan-Eroglu & Bo-Huei Huang & Mark Hamer & Annie Britton & Emmanuel Stamatakis, 2022. "Alcohol Consumption and Adiposity: A Longitudinal Analysis of 45,399 UK Biobank Participants," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(19), pages 1-17, September.
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    1. Michael T. French & Edward C. Norton & Hai Fang & Johanna Catherine Maclean, 2010. "Alcohol consumption and body weight," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 19(7), pages 814-832, July.
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