Moderate alcohol consumption reduces plasma C-reactive protein and fibrinogen levels; a randomized, diet-controlled intervention study
- 1 November 2002
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 56 (11), 1130-1136
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ejcn.1601459
Abstract
To evaluate the effect of moderate alcohol consumption on the acute phase proteins C-reactive protein and fibrinogen. Randomized, diet-controlled, cross-over study. The study was performed at TNO Nutrition and Food Research, Zeist, The Netherlands. Ten middle-aged men and 10 postmenopausal women, all apparently healthy, non-smoking and moderate alcohol drinkers, were included. One women dropped out because of a treatment-unrelated cause. The remaining 19 subjects finished the experiment successfully. Men consumed four glasses and women consumed three glasses of beer or no-alcohol beer (control) with evening dinner during two successive periods of 3 weeks. The total diet was supplied to the subjects and had essentially the same composition during these 6 weeks. Before each treatment there was a 1 week washout period to compensate for possible carry-over effects. Plasma C-reactive protein and fibrinogen levels were decreased by 35% (P=0.02) and 12.4% (P< or =0.001), respectively, after 3 weeks' consumption of beer, as compared to no-alcohol beer consumption. Moderate alcohol consumption significantly decreased plasma C-reactive protein and fibrinogen levels. An anti-inflammatory action of alcohol may help explain the link between moderate alcohol consumption and lower cardiovascular disease risk. Dutch Foundation for Alcohol Research (SAR).Keywords
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