Wine consumption and risk of cardiovascular events after myocardial infarction: results from the GISSI-Prevenzione trial.

Background: To evaluate the association of wine intake with incident cardiovascular events (CVE) and total mortality after myocardial infarction (MI).

Methods: We used prospectively ascertained information among 11,248 Italian patients with recent MI enrolled in the GISSI-Prevenzione Trial. Usual wine consumption has been categorised as never/almost never, up to 0.