Study Suggests Heavy Beer Consumption is Good for the Heart

Fri, 20 Nov 2009

A new study has suggested that drinking in moderation or excess could be good for men’s hearts. In one of largest studies of the link between alcohol and heart disease, it was found that drinking a bottle of wine a day, or half a dozen beers, could reduce the risk of heart disease in men by more than half. The study was conducted by researchers at the public health department of the Basque government in San Sebastian – a region with one of the highest drinking rates in Europe .

The study followed 15,000 men and 26,000 women aged between 29 and 69 for 10 years. Those who drank no more than a glass or wine or a bottle of beer every other day had a 35 per cent lower risk of a heart attack than those who had never drank. Moderate drinkers who enjoyed a couple of pints of bitter or a couple of glasses of wine a day had a remarkable 54 per cent lower risk of a heart attack. Even more shockingly, the study claims that those drinking as much as six pints of bitter or a bottle of wine a day had a 50 per cent lower chance of a heart attack than moderate drinkers.

The researchers did, however, warn that alcohol is responsible for millions of deaths every year throughout the world and that the findings shouldn’t be used to suggest that excessive consumption of alcohol is healthy for the body. British scientists have said the study is ‘flawed’.
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