Why the study?
Does dietary calcium intake interact with alcohol consumption to affect the 10-year incidence of treated hypertension in adults?
Population
6,634 US adults from the NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study without evidence of hypertension at baseline
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
10-year
Authors
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May modify calcium-hypertension link by alcohol intake; hypothesis-generating and should not yet alter dietary guidance.
Does dietary calcium intake interact with alcohol consumption to affect the 10-year incidence of treated hypertension in adults?
The potential protective effect of dietary calcium against incident hypertension may be attenuated or reversed in daily alcohol drinkers, older individuals, and those with higher BMI.
Dwyer et al. (1996) studied this question.
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