A drink a day keeps heart attacks away

• Tuesday January 2, 2007 in: Diet and Exercise Tag(s):

  Technorati Tags: diet, hypertension, health

  Now here's news that even men suffering from high blood pressure can drink to.

  Contrary to what doctors have been, and are telling, countless hypertensive patients, a study conducted by American and Dutch researchers says having a drink or two may actually lower the risks of a heart attack.

  From Bloomberg:

  The research, in today's Annals of Internal Medicine, found that consuming less than three drinks of alcohol a day was linked with lower risk of heart attack in 11,711 men with high blood pressure studied between 1986 and 2002.

  The study, which focused only on men, also found a tipping point for alcohol consumption. It said that consuming three or more drinks a day raised blood pressure, a condition that can lead to heart attacks, heart failure, kidney failure and the fatty buildup in arteries known as atherosclerosis.

  A glass of beer, a glass of wine, or a shot of liquor each counted as one drink in the study, the researchers said. The analysis is based on data from study of health-care professionals.

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