Weekend binge drinking may be linked to Monday peaks in cardiovascular deaths
BMJPublished 21 April 2001
Laurent Chenet, Annie Britton
Citations29
Generate an AI Snapshot to get a quick, structured summary of this paper.
Study Snapshot
ObjectiveStudy objective
MethodsResearch methodology
PopulationPopulation studied
Sample sizeSample sizes
OutcomesStudy outcomes here
ResultsStudy results comes here
LimitationsResearch study limitations comes here
A concise AI-generated summary of the paper will appear here once you click Generate AI Snapshot.
TL;DR
The notion that alcohol consumption is at least partly responsible for the Monday peak in cardiovascular mortality and morbidity has been documented in various settings is developed.
Abstract
EDITOR—As Martyn notes in an editorial, the Monday peak in cardiovascular mortality and morbidity has been documented in various settings.1 We would like to develop further the notion that alcohol consumption is at least partly responsible. In countries with known weekend binge drinking the Monday peak is pronounced and is accompanied …
Keywords
Medicine
BMJGlycated haemoglobin, diabetes, and mortality in men in Norfolk cohort of European Prospective Investigation of Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC-Norfolk)
1,019 Citations2001K.‐T. Khaw
Glycated haemoglobin concentration seems to explain most of the excess mortality risk of diabetes in men and to be a continuous risk factor through the whole population distribution.
Journal of the Royal Society of MedicineThe positive relationship between alcohol and heart disease in eastern Europe: potential physiological mechanisms
264 Citations1998Martin McKee, Annie Britton
Whether there is a physiological basis for the observed association between alcohol and heart disease seen in eastern Europe is examined, focusing on the effects of high levels of consumption and of irregular or binge drinking.
Journal of Epidemiology & Community HealthThe relation between alcohol and cardiovascular disease in Eastern Europe: explaining the paradox: Table 1
241 Citations2000Annie Britton, Martin McKee
An association between binge drinking and cardiovascular death meets the standard criteria for causality, and it is important that future studies of alcohol related harm examine the pattern of drinking as well as the amount drunk.
Journal of Epidemiology & Community HealthAlcohol and cardiovascular mortality in Moscow; new evidence of a causal association.
202 Citations1998Laurent Chenet, Martin McKee +3 more
Examining daily trends in deaths from cardiovascular disease in Moscow suggests a possible causative role for alcohol in sudden cardiovascular death as there are no other obvious explanations for this pattern, which cannot be accounted for by daily variations in traditional risk factors such as smoking or lipids.
PubMedBile acid malabsorption in persistent diarrhoea.
122 Citations2001Smith Mj, Philip Cherian +4 more
It is indicated that BAM is common in patients with chronic diarrhoea, and is frequently found in IBS, and the results of open treatment suggest that, where antidiarrhoeal drugs fail in such patients, BAS are often effective.
BMJ"I don't like Mondays"---day of the week of coronary heart disease deaths in Scotland: study of routinely collected data
77 Citations2000Catherine Evans
The patterns of death from coronary heart disease by day of the week in the Scottish population is investigated and possible links with patterns of alcohol consumption are explored.
Clinical ChemistryEvaluation of the Menarini–Arkray HA 8140 hemoglobin A1c analyzer
42 Citations1997W. Garry John, F Braconnier +3 more
The Menarini-Arkray HA 8140 analyzer displayed good correlation to the Bio-Rad Variant analyzer, Tinaquant immunoassay, affinity chromatography, and an optimized "in-house" HPLC Hb A1c method.
BMJHebdomadal rhythms of the heart
9 Citations2000C N Martyn
The results of several recent studies warn that cardiologists in particular are likely to have a busy time, and there was a clear peak in the occurrence of life threatening ventricular arrhythmias on Mondays.
BMJAre fillers educational?
6 Citations2000Satbir Singh
Call it coincidence, but seven days after reading about two relatives with polymyalgia ( BMJ 2000;320:1641) I saw a woman in general practice with marked weakness, headaches, lassitude, and a slowly rising erythrocyte.