| Budget Amount *help |
¥18,460,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,260,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥9,880,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,280,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Both beneficial and harmful aspects exist in the effects of habitual alcohol drinking on atherosclerotic risk factors. HDL cholesterol is higher in drinkers than in nondrinkers, while LDL cholesterol is lower in drinkers than in nondrinkers. Risk of obesity or hyperglycemia is lower in drinkers than in nondrinkers. These beneficial effects of drinking were less prominent in the older group than in the younger group. On the other hand, harmful effect of drinking is mainly explained by alcohol-induced hypertension. Increase in blood pressure in drinkers compared with nondrinkers was more prominent in the older group than in the younger group. Therefore, the limit of alcohol intake should be lower in older people than in younger people from the viewpoint of prevention of atherosclerotic disease.
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