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. 2021 Sep 9;21(1):1644.
doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-11681-0.

Prevalence and characteristics of alcohol consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in rural China

Xueyan Wu #  1 , Xiaotian Liu #  1 , Wei Liao  1 , Ning Kang  1 , Xiaokang Dong  1 , Tanko Abdulai  1 , Zhihan Zhai  1   2 , Chongjian Wang  1 , Xiaoqiong Wang  3 , Yuqian Li  4
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Prevalence and characteristics of alcohol consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in rural China

Xueyan Wu et al. BMC Public Health. .

Abstract

Background: The study aimed to characterize the prevalence of alcohol consumption and further investigate the relationship between alcohol consumption and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

Methods: We studied 39,259 participants aged 18 to 79 years of the Henan Rural Cohort study. The associations between alcohol consumption and T2DM were examined using the logistic regression models and restricted cubic spline.

Results: For men, alcohol abstinence was associated with an increased risk of T2DM (1.491(1.265, 1.758)), whereas current drinkers were not associated with T2DM (1.03(0.91, 1.15)). Further analysis of alcohol drinkers revealed that only high-risk drinkers of WHO drinking risk levels increased the risk of T2DM (1.289(1.061,1.566)) compared to never drinkers. The risk of T2DM increased as the age of starting to consume alcohol decreased and as the number of years of consuming alcohol and the alcohol intake increased only in men. We further found that the risk of T2DM decreased as the number of years of abstinence increases and no association between alcohol abstinence and T2DM was found after more than 10 years of abstinence among men.

Conclusions: Our results suggested that reducing the amount of alcohol consumed and adhering to abstinence from alcohol consumption are beneficial in reducing the risk of T2DM.

Trial registration: The Henan Rural Cohort Study has been registered at Chinese Clinical Trial Register (Registration number: ChiCTR-OOC-15006699). Date of registration: 2015-07-06. http://www.chictr.org.cn/showproj.aspx?proj=11375.

Keywords: Abstinence; Alcohol; Rural population; Type 2 diabetes mellitus; WHO drinking risk levels.

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Conflict of interest statement

All authors have read and approved this version of the article, and declared that they had no competing or financial interests to disclosure.

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