International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Article Is There a Link between Different Types of Alcoholic Drinks and Obesity? An Analysis of 280,183 UK Biobank Participants Elif Inan-Eroglu 1,2, Lauren Powell 2, Mark Hamer 3, Gary O’Donovan 4 , Mitch J. Duncan 5,6 and Emmanuel Stamatakis 2,7,* 1 The Boden Collaboration for Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise & Eating Disorders, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2050, Australia;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +61-2-86271867 Received: 29 May 2020; Accepted: 13 July 2020; Published: 17 July 2020 Abstract: Understanding the associations between types of alcoholic drinks and adiposity has public health relevance, considering that adult overweight and obesity prevalence are increasing worldwide. We aimed to evaluate the association between overall alcohol consumption and types of alcohol drinks with markers of adiposity from the UK Biobank baseline data (n = 280,183, 48.3% female).