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Dallas, TX<\/strong> – Young adults who frequently binge drink were more likely to have certain risk factors for cardiovascular disease<\/a> than non-binge drinkers, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association<\/a>, <\/em>the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association\/American Stroke Association.<\/p>\n\u201cCompared to previous generations, the pervasiveness, intensity (number of drinks) and regularity (several times per week) of binge drinking may place today\u2019s young adult at greater risk for more profound rates of alcohol-attributable harm,\u201d said Mariann Piano, Ph.D., R.N., study lead author and Nancy and Hilliard Travis Chair in Nursing and Senior Associate Dean for Research at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing in Nashville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Young men who reported that they repeatedly binge drink had higher systolic blood pressure and total cholesterol while young women who repeatedly binge drink had higher blood sugar levels compared to non-binge drinkers. (American Heart Association)<\/p><\/div>\n
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\u201cYoung adults need to be aware that the consequences of repeated binge drinking may harm their hearts. The risk extends beyond poor school performance and increased risk for accidental injury,\u201d stated Piano.<\/p>\n
Previous studies have found that binge drinking \u2013 often defined as consuming five drinks or more in a row for men (4 four or more drinks for women) per occasion within the past 30 days \u2013 increases cardiovascular risk among middle-aged and older adults.<\/p>\n
But among younger adults age 18 to 45 specifically, the relationship between binge drinking, blood pressure and metabolic factors remained unclear.<\/p>\n
This study examined cardiovascular risks, including high blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar, among 4,710 adults 18- to 45-years-old who responded to the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) in 2011-2012 and 2013-2014. Participants reported non-binge drinking, binge drinking (1-12 times yearly), or frequent binge drinking (more than12 times yearly). Then researchers compared blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels among the three groups.<\/p>\n
Researchers found:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cImplementing lifestyle interventions to reduce blood pressure in early adulthood may be an important strategy to prevent cardiovascular disease later in life,\u201d Piano said. \u201cYoung adults should be screened and counseled about alcohol misuse, including binge drinking, and advised on how binge drinking may affect their cardiovascular health.\u201d<\/p>\n This study showed only an association, not a cause and effect relationship, between binge drinking and cardiovascular risk factors.<\/p>\n The American Heart Association<\/a> suggests moderate alcohol consumption for adults who choose to drink. The Association defines moderate alcohol consumption as an average of one to two drinks per day for men, and one drink per day for women. A drink is 12 ounces of beer, four ounces of wine, or 1.5 ounces of 80-proof spirits. Excessive alcohol consumption increases the risk for alcohol dependency, cardiovascular risk factors including high blood pressure and obesity, stroke, certain types of cancer, suicide and accidents.<\/p>\n In the United States, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death. It causes about one out of every three deaths, or an estimated 2,300 deaths, each day, according to the American Heart Association.<\/p>\n Some risk factors, such as family history and age, are uncontrollable. Many others, however, are controllable through lifestyle changes such as controlling high blood pressure, controlling high blood cholesterol, controlling high blood sugar, being physically active, eating a healthy diet, losing excess weight and stopping smoking.<\/p>\n Co-authors are Larisa Burke, M.P.H.; Minkyung Kang, Ph.D., R.N. and Shane A. Phillips, Ph.D., M.P.T. The authors reported no conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n The National Institutes of Health funded the study.<\/p>\n Additional Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n Journal of the American Heart Association Report Dallas, TX – Young adults who frequently binge drink were more likely to have certain risk factors for cardiovascular disease than non-binge drinkers, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association\/American Stroke Association. \u201cCompared to previous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[2548,2538,2512,2554,88,4030,215,284,10569,12123],"class_list":["post-13818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-alcohol","tag-american-heart-association","tag-blood-sugar","tag-cardiovascular-disease","tag-cholesterol","tag-dallas-tx","tag-high-blood-pressure","tag-nashville-tn","tag-systolic-blood-pressure","tag-vanderbilt-university-school-of-nursing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13819,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13818\/revisions\/13819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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