Table 1

Chronic heavy drinking and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) risk in men, 1967–2013

Heavy drinking group, IHD end point	Reference group	Number of studies	Number of events*	Number of chronic heavy drinkers	Relative risk	95% CI	p Value†	I² (%)
Chronic heavy drinking (population samples)
Incidence	Lifetime abstainers	11	954	35 756	1.04	0.83 to 1.31	0.016	54
Mortality	Lifetime abstainers	5	618	34 182	1.00	0.74 to 1.36	0.026	64
Morbidity	Lifetime abstainers	3	299	471	1.13	0.78 to 1.63	0.97	0
Incidence	Current abstainers	14	1268	50 805	0.83	0.70 to 0.98	<0.001	73
Mortality	Current abstainers	9	853	46 450	0.85	0.67 to 1.08	<0.001	74
Morbidity	Current abstainers	2	193	884	0.78	0.21 to 2.90	0.006	87
Patients with AUD (clinical samples)
Mortality	General population	9	761	18 758	1.62	1.34 to 1.95	<0.001	81