Dr Goyfman confirmed that it is due to the presence of red wine which French people love to consume with their meals. "Over the years, they've done numerous studies where they ultimately did show that red wine consumption and other types of alcohol seemed to decrease the risk of having cardiovascular disease," he said. The "novel part" of the new study, Goyfman noted, is that Naess and his co-researchers not only looked at the health effects of alcohol; they stratified effects based on socioeconomic status.
During the study, researchers have analyzed the information of around 207,394 adults who were classified as high, middle, and low categories depending on the 20 indicators which includes their income and education. Researchers have also concluded that there were around 8,435 deaths due to cardiovascular disease and infrequent drinking also lowers down the risk of heart problems.
They have also classified infrequent drinking as someone who consume once in a week or month, moderate for two to three times in a week and frequent for four to seven times in a week. After calculating the data, people who are frequent drinkers are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease and especially those who belong to lower socioeconomic level.
As a group, participants of low socioeconomic status who drank frequently experienced about 42 per cent more deaths due to cardiovascular disease than infrequent drinkers, the study authors estimated. This finding "suggests that the proposed benefit from drinking a glass of wine per day could actually be the lifestyle that accompanies the glass -- and not the contents (of the glass) in itself," said Eirik Degerud, co-author of the study and a postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
Mair, who was not involved in the study, believes it has a "key strength" in its "large, population-based database." The greater impact of drinking on lower socioeconomic status individuals is "an important health disparity to measure, understand and seek to reduce," Mair said. But because of differences in socioeconomic status between Norway and the United States, she noted, the "results may not be applicable here." "Much of my work focuses on the social environmental determinants of these disparities," Mair explained. For example, she has studied the ways in which lower-income neighborhoods are more socially disorganized and have less access to health-protecting resources, including healthy foods, while having a greater number of liquor stores, which are linked to violence.
As per the authors of the study, there are also some of the unknown factors that can influence the state of drinking across the socioeconomic levels which is also dependent on the different state of behaviors. The best example is that the higher socioeconomic class will prefer to eat healthy food while drinking compared to the lower levels. Degerud noted: "The risk of hospitalization for alcohol-related events, such as violence or accidents, seem to be higher among those with lower socioeconomic position."
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