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Frequent alcohol drinking is associated with lower prevalence of self-reported common cold: a retrospective study

BACKGROUND: Alcohol intake has been associated with reduced incidence of common cold symptoms in 2 European studies. However, no study has addressed the association between the frequency of alcohol intake and the incidence of common cold. This study aimed to investigate the association between the a...

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Autores principales: Ouchi, Eriko, Niu, Kaijun, Kobayashi, Yoritoshi, Guan, Lei, Momma, Haruki, Guo, Hui, Chujo, Masahiko, Otomo, Atsushi, Cui, Yufei, Nagatomi, Ryoichi
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3533961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23158193
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-987
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author Ouchi, Eriko
Niu, Kaijun
Kobayashi, Yoritoshi
Guan, Lei
Momma, Haruki
Guo, Hui
Chujo, Masahiko
Otomo, Atsushi
Cui, Yufei
Nagatomi, Ryoichi
author_facet Ouchi, Eriko
Niu, Kaijun
Kobayashi, Yoritoshi
Guan, Lei
Momma, Haruki
Guo, Hui
Chujo, Masahiko
Otomo, Atsushi
Cui, Yufei
Nagatomi, Ryoichi
author_sort Ouchi, Eriko
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description BACKGROUND: Alcohol intake has been associated with reduced incidence of common cold symptoms in 2 European studies. However, no study has addressed the association between the frequency of alcohol intake and the incidence of common cold. This study aimed to investigate the association between the amount and frequency of alcohol drinking and the retrospective prevalence of common cold in Japanese men. METHODS: This retrospective study included men who participated in an annual health examination conducted in Sendai, Japan. The frequency of common cold episodes in the previous year was self-reported. The weekly frequency and amount of alcohol consumed, as well as the type of alcoholic drink, were reported by a brief-type self-administered diet history questionnaire. Logistic regression models were used to analyze the association between the amount and frequency of alcohol intake and the retrospective prevalence of common cold. RESULTS: Among 899 men, 83.4% of the subjects reported drinking alcohol, and 55.4% of the subjects reported having experienced at least one episode of common cold in the previous year. Compared with non-drinkers, the adjusted odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for having had 1 or more episodes of common cold during the past year across categories of alcohol intake frequency of 3 or less, 4–6, and 7 days/week were 0.827 (0.541–1.266), 0.703 (0.439–1.124), and 0.621 (0.400–0.965), respectively (P for trend = 0.025); the adjusted ORs with 95% CIs for having had of 2 or more episodes of common cold across the same categories were 0.642 (0.395–1.045), 0.557 (0.319–0.973), and 0.461 (0.270–0.787), respectively (P for trend = 0.006). Compared with subjects who consumed 11.5–35.8 g of alcohol per day, the non-drinkers were significantly more likely to experience 2 or more episodes of common cold (OR, 1.843; 95% CI, 1.115–3.047). CONCLUSION: The frequency, not the amount, of alcohol intake was significantly related to lower prevalence of self-reported common cold episodes in Japanese men.
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spelling pubmed-35339612013-01-07 Frequent alcohol drinking is associated with lower prevalence of self-reported common cold: a retrospective study Ouchi, Eriko Niu, Kaijun Kobayashi, Yoritoshi Guan, Lei Momma, Haruki Guo, Hui Chujo, Masahiko Otomo, Atsushi Cui, Yufei Nagatomi, Ryoichi BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Alcohol intake has been associated with reduced incidence of common cold symptoms in 2 European studies. However, no study has addressed the association between the frequency of alcohol intake and the incidence of common cold. This study aimed to investigate the association between the amount and frequency of alcohol drinking and the retrospective prevalence of common cold in Japanese men. METHODS: This retrospective study included men who participated in an annual health examination conducted in Sendai, Japan. The frequency of common cold episodes in the previous year was self-reported. The weekly frequency and amount of alcohol consumed, as well as the type of alcoholic drink, were reported by a brief-type self-administered diet history questionnaire. Logistic regression models were used to analyze the association between the amount and frequency of alcohol intake and the retrospective prevalence of common cold. RESULTS: Among 899 men, 83.4% of the subjects reported drinking alcohol, and 55.4% of the subjects reported having experienced at least one episode of common cold in the previous year. Compared with non-drinkers, the adjusted odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for having had 1 or more episodes of common cold during the past year across categories of alcohol intake frequency of 3 or less, 4–6, and 7 days/week were 0.827 (0.541–1.266), 0.703 (0.439–1.124), and 0.621 (0.400–0.965), respectively (P for trend = 0.025); the adjusted ORs with 95% CIs for having had of 2 or more episodes of common cold across the same categories were 0.642 (0.395–1.045), 0.557 (0.319–0.973), and 0.461 (0.270–0.787), respectively (P for trend = 0.006). Compared with subjects who consumed 11.5–35.8 g of alcohol per day, the non-drinkers were significantly more likely to experience 2 or more episodes of common cold (OR, 1.843; 95% CI, 1.115–3.047). CONCLUSION: The frequency, not the amount, of alcohol intake was significantly related to lower prevalence of self-reported common cold episodes in Japanese men. BioMed Central 2012-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3533961/ /pubmed/23158193 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-987 Text en Copyright ©2012 Ouchi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ouchi, Eriko
Niu, Kaijun
Kobayashi, Yoritoshi
Guan, Lei
Momma, Haruki
Guo, Hui
Chujo, Masahiko
Otomo, Atsushi
Cui, Yufei
Nagatomi, Ryoichi
Frequent alcohol drinking is associated with lower prevalence of self-reported common cold: a retrospective study
title Frequent alcohol drinking is associated with lower prevalence of self-reported common cold: a retrospective study
title_full Frequent alcohol drinking is associated with lower prevalence of self-reported common cold: a retrospective study
title_fullStr Frequent alcohol drinking is associated with lower prevalence of self-reported common cold: a retrospective study
title_full_unstemmed Frequent alcohol drinking is associated with lower prevalence of self-reported common cold: a retrospective study
title_short Frequent alcohol drinking is associated with lower prevalence of self-reported common cold: a retrospective study
title_sort frequent alcohol drinking is associated with lower prevalence of self-reported common cold: a retrospective study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3533961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23158193
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-987
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