Studies and articles appear in order of reference in “Making Sense of Wine and Your Health.” To learn more, read our latest coverage of wine and health.
Wine and Your Brain
Neurology, “Association of Dietary Intake of Flavonols with Changes in Global Cognition and Several Cognitive Abilities,” Oct. 2021.
Neurology, “Dietary Flavonols and Risk of Alzheimer Dementia,” April 2020.
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, “Long-term Dietary Flavonoid Intake and Risk of Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias in the Framingham Offspring Cohort,” Aug. 2020.
Neurology, “Intake of Flavonoids and Flavonoid-Rich Foods and Mortality Risk Among Individuals With Parkinson Disease,” March 2022.
Neurology, “Alcohol Intake as a Risk Factor for Acute Stroke,” Oct. 2022.
BMC Medicine, “Alcohol Intake, Wine Consumption and the Development of Depression: the PREDIMED Study,” Aug. 2013.
Cancer Causes and Control, “Alcohol Intake and Risk of Pituitary Adenoma,” Jan. 2022.
The Gerontologist, “The Benefit of Moderate Alcohol Use on Mood and Functional Ability in Later Life: Due to Beers or Frequent Cheers?” Feb. 2020.
Wine and Your Heart
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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, “Longitudinal Study of Alcohol Consumption and HDL Concentrations: a Community-Based Study,” April 2017.
Nutrients, “Effect of Moderate Wine Consumption on Oxidative Stress Markers in Coronary Heart Disease Patients,” March 2022.
Hypertension, “Microbial Diversity and Abundance of Parabacteroides Mediate the Associations Between Higher Intake of Flavonoid-Rich Foods and Lower Blood Pressure,” Aug. 2021.
Wine and Your Weight
“Wine and Weight: How Does Wine Affect Your Waistline?” Sept. 2017.
“5 Popular Diets that Allow Wine,” March 2019.
Obesity Science and Practice, “Beer, Wine, and Spirits Differentially Influence Body Composition in Older White Adults—a United Kingdom Biobank Study,” Feb. 2022.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, “Is There a Link Between Different Types of Alcoholic Drinks and Obesity? An Analysis of 280,183 UK Biobank Participants,” July 2020.
“Is Wine Empty Calories? A Spanish Researcher Argues It May Help Stave Off Extra Pounds,” July 2021.
Wine and Time: Aging
Neurology, “Association of Dietary Intake of Flavonols with Changes in Global Cognition and Several Cognitive Abilities,” Oct. 2021.
Ophthalmology, “Alcohol Consumption and Incident Cataract Surgery in Two Large UK Cohorts,” June 2021.
Gut, “Mediterranean Diet Intervention Alters the Gut Microbiome in Older People Reducing Frailty and Improving Health Status: the NU-AGE 1-year Dietary Intervention Across Five European Countries,” Feb. 2020.
The Gerontologist, “The Benefit of Moderate Alcohol Use on Mood and Functional Ability in Later Life: Due to Beers or Frequent Cheers?” Feb. 2020.
The Lancet, “Population-level Risks of Alcohol Consumption by Amount, Geography, Age, Sex, and Year: a Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020,” July 2022.
BMJ, “Healthy Lifestyle and Life Expectancy Free of Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, and Type 2 Diabetes: Prospective Cohort Study,” Jan. 2020.
Wine and Women
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Fertility
Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, “The Association Between Caffeine and Alcohol Consumption and IVF/ICSI Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis,” Oct. 2022.
Fertility and Sterility, “Beverage Intake and Ovarian Reserve Among Women from a Fertility Center,” July 2022.
Human Reproduction, “The Association Between Alcohol Intake and Fecundability During Menstrual Cycle Phases,” Sept. 2021.
BMJ, “Alcohol Consumption and Fecundability: Prospective Danish Cohort Study,” Aug. 2016.
Human Reproduction, “Intake of Wine, Beer and Spirits and Waiting Time to Pregnancy,” Sept. 2003.
Human Reproduction, “Moderate Alcohol Consumption and Waiting Time to Pregnancy,” Dec. 2001.
Pregnancy
BMJ Open, “Low Alcohol Consumption and Pregnancy and Childhood Outcomes: Time to Change Guidelines Indicating Apparently ‘Safe’ Levels of Alcohol During Pregnancy? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses,” Aug. 3, 2017
Annals of Epidemiology, “Low-to-Moderate Prenatal Alcohol Consumption and the Risk of Selected Birth Outcomes: A Prospective Cohort Study,” Oct. 16, 2014
British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, “The Effect of Different Alcohol Drinking Patterns in Early to Mid Pregnancy on the Child's Intelligence, Attention, and Executive Function,” June 20, 2012
Nursing
Is It Safe to Drink Wine While Nursing?
Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, “Is Breast Best? Examining the Effects of Alcohol and Cannabis Use During Lactation. Dec. 21, 2018
Journal of Population Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology, “Alcohol: A Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Point of View During Lactation,” July 15, 2016
Alcohol Research & Health, "Alcohol's Effect on Lactation," 2001
Menopause
American Journal of Epidemiology, “Is Alcohol Consumption Associated With Risk of Early Menopause?,” December 2021
General Health Benefits: Cardiovascular Disease and More
Nutrients, “Mediterranean Alcohol-Drinking Patterns and All-Cause Mortality in Women More Than 55 Years Old and Men More Than 50 Years Old in the ‘Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra’ (SUN) Cohort,” Dec. 2022.
Nutrients, “Urinary Tartaric Acid, a Biomarker of Wine Intake, Correlates with Lower Total and LDL Cholesterol,” Aug. 2021.
BMJ, “Healthy Lifestyle and Life Expectancy Free of Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, and Type 2 Diabetes: Prospective Cohort Study,” Jan. 2020.
Additional relevant citations appear in other sections, above and below.
Weight Gain and Diabetes
Archives of Internal Medicine, “Alcohol Consumption, Weight Gain, and Risk of Becoming Overweight in Middle-Aged and Older Women,” March 2010.
JAMA Network Open, “Association of the Mediterranean Diet with Onset of Diabetes in the Women’s Health Study,” Nov. 2020.
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, “Wine and Health—New Evidence,” July 2019.
Diabetologia, “Alcohol Drinking Patterns and Risk of Diabetes: A Cohort Study of 70,551 Men and Women from the General Danish Population,” Oct. 2017
Osteoporosis, Bone Density and Hip Fractures
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, “Alcohol Consumption, Bone Mineral Density, and Risk of Osteoporotic Fractures: A Dose–Response Meta-Analysis,” Jan. 2022.
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, “Alcohol Intake, Specific Alcoholic Beverages, and Risk of Hip Fractures in Postmenopausal Women and Men Age 50 and Older,” Sept. 2019.
Alcohol: Clinical Expression and Research, “Alcohol: A Simple Nutrient with Complex Actions on Bone in the Adult Skeleton,” April 2016.
Obesity Science and Practice, “Beer, Wine, and Spirits Differentially Influence Body Composition in Older White Adults—a United Kingdom Biobank Study,” Feb. 2022.
Menopause, “Moderate Alcohol Intake Lowers Biochemical Markers of Bone Turnover in Postmenopausal Women,” July 2012.
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, “The Effect of Moderate Alcohol Consumption on Bone Mineral Density: A Study of Female Twins,” July 2004.
Rheumatoid Arthritis
RMD Open, “Effects of Alcohol Consumption and Smoking on Risk for RA: Results from a Swedish Prospective Cohort Study,” Jan. 2021.
BMJ, “Long Term Alcohol Intake and Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Women: A Population Based Cohort Study,” July 2012.
Rheumatology, “Alcohol Consumption Is Inversely Associated with Risk and Severity of Rheumatoid Arthritis,” Nov. 2010.
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, “Alcohol Consumption is Associated with Decreased Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results from Two Scandinavian Case-Control Studies,” June 2008.
Wine and Disease
Cancer Causes and Control, “Alcohol Intake, Drinking Patterns, and Prostate Cancer Risk and Mortality: a 30-year Prospective Cohort Study of Finnish Twins,” June 2016.
Clinical Epidemiology, “The Impact of Moderate Wine Consumption on the Risk of Developing Prostate Cancer,” April 2018.
European Journal of Nutrition, “An Inverse Association Between the Mediterranean Diet and Bladder Cancer Risk: a Pooled Analysis of 13 Cohort Studies,” Feb. 2019.
Cancer Causes and Control, “Alcohol Intake and Risk of Pituitary Adenoma,” Jan. 2022.
“Drinking Wine During Meals Could Lower Your Risk of Developing Diabetes, Researchers Find,” March 2022.
JAMA Network Open, “Association of the Mediterranean Diet With Onset of Diabetes in the Women’s Health Study,” Nov. 2020.
Journal of Renal Nutrition, “Alcohol Consumption and Incident Kidney Disease: Results From the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study,” March 2019.
Can Wine Prevent COVID-19 and Other Infections?
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Frontiers in Nutrition, “COVID-19 Risk Appears to Vary Across Different Alcoholic Beverages,” Jan. 2021.
American Journal of Epidemiology, “The Intake of Wine, Beer and Spirits and the Risk of the Common Cold,” May 2002.
