Alcohol consumption is associated with a lower incidence of acute myocardial infarction: results from a large prospective population‐based study in Norway

Abstract

Light-to-moderate alcohol consumption was linearly associated with a decreased risk of AMI in a population in which abstaining from alcohol is not socially stigmatized. Our results suggest that frequent alcohol consumption is most cardioprotective and that this association is not driven by misclassification of former drinkers.