Alcohol Alert: Alcohol and Coronary Heart Disease

Heart attacks and other forms of coronary heart disease (CHD) result in approximately 500,000 deaths annually, accounting for 25 percent of the Nation's total mortality. Research has revealed an association between moderate alcohol consumption and lower risk for CHD. This Alcohol Alert reviews epidemiologic evidence for this association, explores lifestyle factors and physiological mechanisms that might suggest ways to explain alcohol's apparent protective effects, and presents available data on the balance between alcohol's beneficial and harmful effects on health.

http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa45.htm

Publication Year: 1999

Publisher

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
5635 Fishers Lane, MSC 9304
Bethesda, md 20892
Phone: 301-443-3885
Website: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/