Low fasting serum insulin in Japanese alcohol consumers does not imply improved coronary risk factors

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 243-250

  Yamada, Yuichi ^a   Noborisaka, Yuka ^a   Ishizaki, Masao ^a   Tsuritani, Ikiko ^a   Honda, Ryumon ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Coronary risk factors; Glucose; Insulin; Insulin resistance; Serum gamma glutamyltransferase

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY RISK; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIET RESTRICTION; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN RESISTANCE; JAPAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 10044238712     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1265/ehpm.9.243     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Colditz GA, Branch LG, Lipnick RJ, et al. Moderate alcohol and decreased cardiovascular mortality in an elderly cohort. Am Heart J. 1985; 109: 886-889.
2. Dyer AR, Stamler J, Paul O, et al. Alcohol consumption and 17-year mortality in the Chicago Western Electronic Company Study. Prev Med. 1980; 9: 78-90.
3. Marmot MG, Rose G, Shipley MJ, Thomas BJ. Alcohol and mortality: A U-shaped curve. Lancet. 1981; I: 580-583.
4. Nakanishi N, Suzuki K, Tatara K. Alcohol consumption and risk for development of impaired fasting glucose or type 2 diabetes in middle-aged Japanese men. Diabetes Care. 2003; 26: 48-54.
5. Perry IJ, Wannamethee SG, Walker MK, Thomson AG, Whincup PH, Shaper AG. Prospective study of risk factors for development of non-insulin dependent diabetes in middle-aged British men. Brit J Med. 1995; 310: 560-564.
6. Rimm EB, Chan J, Stampfer MJ, Colditz GA, Willett WC. Prospective study of cigarette smoking, alcohol use, and the risk of diabetes in men. Brit J Med. 1995; 310: 555-559.
7. Tsumura K, Endo G, Hayashi T, Fujii S, Suematsu C, Okada K. Daily alcohol consumption and the risk of type 2 diabetes in Japanese men. The Osaka Study. Diabetes Care. 1999; 22: 1432-1437.
8. Wei M, Kampert JB, Gibbons LW, Blair SN, Mitchell TL. Alcohol intake and incidence of type 2 diabetes in men. Diabetes Care. 2000; 23: 18-22.
9. Dixon JB, Dixon ME, O'Brien PE. Alcohol consumption in the severely obese: relationship with the metabolic syndrome. Obes Res. 2002; 10: 245-252.
10. Rosell M, De Faire U, Hellenius ML. Low prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in wine drinkers - is it the alcohol beverage or the lifestyle? Eur J Clin Nutr. 2003; 57: 227-234.
11. Lee DH, Ha MH, Kim JR, Gross M, Jacobs DR. Gamma-glutamyltransferase, alcohol, and blood pressure: a four year follow-up study. Ann Epidemiol. 2002; 12: 90-96.
12. Miura K, Nakagawa H, Nakamura H, et al. Serum gamma-glutamyl transferase level in predicting hypertension among male drinkers. J Hum Hypertens. 1994; 8: 445-459.
13. Yamada Y, Ishizaki M, Kido T, et al. Alcohol, high blood pressure, and serum γ-glutamyl transpeptidase level. Hypertension. 1991; 18: 819-826.
14. Lee DH, Ha MH, Kim JH, et al. Gamma-glutamyltransferase and diabetes - a 4 year follow-up study. Diabetol. 2003; 46: 359-364.
15. Nakanishi N, Nishina K, Li W, Sato M, Suzuki K, Tatara K. Serum gamma-glutamyltransferase and development of impaired fasting glucose or type 2 diabetes in middle-aged Japanese men. J Intern Med. 2003; 254: 287-295.
16. Perry IJ, Wannamethee SG, Shaper AG. Prospective study of serum γ-glutamyltransferase and risk of NIDDM. Diabetes Care. 1998; 21: 732-237.
17. Hashimoto Y, Futamura A, Nakarai H, Nakahara K. Relationship between response of γ-glutamyl transpeptidase to alcohol drinking and risk factors for coronary heart disease. Atherosclerosis. 2001; 158: 465-470.
18. Rantala AO, Lilja M, Kauma H, Savolainen MJ, Reunanen A, Kesaniemi YA. Gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase and the metabolic syndrome. J Intern Med. 2000; 248: 230-238.
19. Yamada Y, Noborisaka Y, Suzuki H, Ishizaki M, Yamada S. Alcohol consumption, serum gamma-glutamyltransferase levels, and coronary risk factors in a middle-aged occupational population. J Occup Health. 2003; 45: 293-299.
20. Matthews DR, Hosker JP, Rudenski AS, Naylor BA, Treacher DF, Turner RC. Homeostasis model assessment: insulin resistance and β-cell function from fasting plasma glucose and insulin concentration in man. Diabetol. 1985; 28: 412-419.
21. Kiechl S, Willeit J, Poewe W, et al. Insulin sensitivity and regular alcohol consumption: large, prospective, cross sectional population study (Bruneck study). Brit Med J. 1996; 313: 1040-1041.
22. Lazarus R, Sparrow D, Weiss ST. Alcohol intake and insulin levels. The Normative Aging Study. Am J Epidemiol. 1997; 145: 909-916.
23. Mayer EJ, Newman B, Quesenberry CP, Friedman G, Selby JV. Alcohol consumption and insulin concentrations. Role of insulin in association of alcohol intake with high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides. Circulation. 1993; 88 [part 1]: 2190-2197.
24. Razzay G, Heaton KW. Moderate alcohol consumption has been shown previously to improve insulin sensitivity in men. Brit J Med. 1997; 314: 443-444.
25. Yamada Y, Noborisaka Y, Ishizaki M, Tsuritani I, Honda R, Yamada S. Alcohol consumption, homeostasis model assessment indices and blood pressure in middle-aged healthy men. J Hum Hypertens. 2004; 18: 343-350.
26. Friedewald WT. Estimation of the concentration of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in plasma without use of preparative ultracentrifuge. Clin Chem. 1972; 18: 499-509.
27. Cubeddu LX, Hoffman IS. Insulin resistance and upper-normal glucose levels in hypertension: a review. J Hum Hypertens 2002; 16 (Suppl 1): S52-S55.
28. Lu W, Jablonski KA, Resnick HE, et al. Alcohol intake and glycemia in American Indians: The Strong Heart Study. Metabolism. 2003; 52: 129-135.
29. Dorn JM, Hovey K, Muti P, et al. Alcohol drinking patterns differentially affect central adiposity as measured by abdominal height in women and men. J Nutr. 2003; 133: 2655-2662.
30. th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000: 208-218.
31. den Boer M, Voshol PJ, Kuipers F, Havekes LM, Romjin JA. Hepatic steatosis: a mediator of the metabolic syndrome. Lessons from animal models. Artherioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2004; 24: 644-649.
32. Saglam K, Kilic R, Yilmaz MI, Gulec M, Baykal Y, Kutlu M. Insulin resistance in patients with steatohepatitis. Hepatogastroenterology. 2003; 50: 456-459.
33. Arima H, Kiyohara Y, Kato I, et al. Alcohol reduces insulin-hypertension relationship in a general population. The Hisayama study. J Clin Epidemiol. 2002; 55: 863-869.
34. Bell DSH. Alcohol and the NIDDM patient. Diabetes Care. 1996; 19: 509-513.