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Say cheers every day to cut heart risk
Alcohol lovers have now one more excuse to say ‘cheers’ every day, as a new research said it can cut the risk of heart problems by almost a third in men.
Alcohol lovers have now one more excuse to say ‘cheers’ every day, as a new research said it can cut the risk of heart problems by almost a third in men.
The Spanish research involving more than 15,500 men and 26,000 women found that those who have about four to ten units a day can apparently even halve their risk — regardless of whether they opt for beer, wine or spirits.
Women can get some benefits too, said the study published in Heart journal, although more testing is needed.
The research involved men and women aged between 29 and 69, who were asked to
document their lifetime drinking habits and followed for 10 years.
Crucially the research team claim to have eliminated the “sick abstainers” risk by differentiating between those who had never drunk and those whom ill-health had forced to quit.
This has been used in the past to explain fewer heart-related deaths among drinkers on the basis that those who are unhealthy to start with are less likely to drink, the BBC reported.
