Alcohol helps the heart

• April 19, 2024

A study conducted in the United States showed that women who took from a few alcoholic drinks per month up to more than three drinks a week, during the year prior to suffering a heart attack , they lived longer than those who never drank alcohol.

Based on information fromexcelsior.com.mx , results that focused on more than a thousand women and were published in American Journal of Cardiology, add to the evidence that alcohol, regardless of the type of beverage, can be good for the heart .

Joshua Rosenbloom , a student of the School of Medicine Harvard, who led the study, said: "One interesting thing was that we did not see differences between different types of drinks, the latter evidence suggests that it is alcohol itself that is beneficial."

For the researcher and his team, there was a risk equally reduced of dying in the follow-up period if the women drank wine, beer or high alcoholic beverages.

"One drink a day is a really good goal, assuming that a person can be disciplined about it," he said. James O'Keefe cardiologist St. Luke's Health System in Kansas City, Missouri, who did not participate in the investigation.

In the study carried out at 1,200 women hospitalized by a heart attack , they were asked about how many alcoholic beverages they usually consumed, as well as other questions about health and lifestyle.

After at least 10 years of follow-up, the researchers discovered that 44 out of 100 women what were they teetotal they had died, compared to 25 out of every 100 occasional drinkers Y 18 out of 100 habitual consumers of alcohol .

This showed that there is a 35% lower probability of dying during the follow-up period for women who drank compared to those who did not.

O'Keefe had conducted a previous study of men and women, in which he discovered that people who continued to drink moderately after suffering a heart attack I had better health than I was abstemious .

The cardiologist said: "It is not necessary to assume that people need to stop drinking once they develop heart disease. alcohol it's a slippery terrain, and although we know a little is good for us, a lot is really bad. "

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