Regular wine consumption in chronic heart failure: impact on outcomes, quality of life, and circulating biomarkers.

Cosmi, Franco and Di Giulio, Paola and Masson, Serge and Finzi, Andrea and Marfisi, Rosa Maria and Cosmi, Daniela and Scarano, Marco and Tognoni, Gianni and Maggioni, Aldo Pietro and Porcu, Maurizio and Boni, Silvana and Cutrupi, Giovanni and Tavazzi, Luigi and Latini, Roberto and GISSI-HF Investigators, (2015) Regular wine consumption in chronic heart failure: impact on outcomes, quality of life, and circulating biomarkers. Circulation Heart Failure, 8 (3). pp. 428-437. ISSN 1941-3297

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Moderate, regular alcohol consumption is generally associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular events but data in patients with chronic heart failure are scarce. We evaluated the relations between wine consumption, health status, circulating biomarkers, and clinical outcomes in a large Italian population of patients with chronic heart failure enrolled in a multicenter clinical trial. METHODS AND RESULTS: A brief questionnaire on dietary habits was administered at baseline to 6973 patients enrolled in the Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio della Sopravvivenza nell'Insufficienza Cardiaca-Heart Failure (GISSI-HF) trial. The relations between wine consumption, fatal and nonfatal clinical end points, quality of life, symptoms of depression, and circulating biomarkers of cardiac function and inflammation (in subsets of patients) were evaluated with simple and multivariable-adjusted statistical models. Almost 56% of the patients reported drinking at least 1 glass of wine per day. After adjustment, clinical outcomes were not significantly different in the predefined 4 groups of wine consumption. However, patients with more frequent wine consumption had a significantly better perception of health status (Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire score, adjusted P<0.0001), less frequent symptoms of depression (Geriatric Depression Scale, adjusted P=0.01), and lower plasma levels of biomarkers of vascular inflammation (osteoprotegerin and C-terminal proendothelin-1, adjusted P<0.0001, and pentraxin-3, P=0.01) after adjusting for possible confounders. CONCLUSIONS: We show for the first time in a large cohort of patients with chronic heart failure that moderate wine consumption is associated with a better perceived and objective health status, lower prevalence of depression, and less vascular inflammation, but does not translate into more favorable clinical 4-year outcomes.

Item Type:	Scientific journal article, Newspaper article or Magazine article
Subjects:	Medicine and Dentistry > Clinical medicine
Department/unit:	Dipartimento economia aziendale, sanità e sociale > Centro competenze pratiche e politiche sanitarie
Depositing User:	Paola Di Giulio
Date Deposited:	10 Oct 2016 14:37
Last Modified:	17 Oct 2023 10:00
URI:	http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/7774

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