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Drinking Alcohol and Heart Disease: Facts & Information
by David J. Hanson, Ph. D.
Listed below are links to useful sources of information about the affects of drinking alcohol in moderation on good heart health, reducing the risk of heart attacks and related problems.
I. Good Heart Health and Preventing Heart Attacks
- Alcohol Reduces Heart Disease Says U.S. Government
- Overall Heart Health Improved by Drinking Alcohol
- Drinking Alcohol Protective against Coronary Heart Disease (CHD)
- Frequent Consumption of Alcohol Reduces Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) Risk
- Drinking Alcohol Reduces Coronary Vascular Disease (CVD) Risk
- Drinking Alcohol Reduces Congestive Heart Failure
- Cardiovascular Deaths and Alcohol
II. Hypertension, Cholesterol, “Bad Protein (C-reactive Protein or CRP, and Related
- Alcohol Reduces Hypertension
- Drinking Alcohol May Benefit High Blood Pressure (Hypertension) Patients
- Alcohol, Hypertension and Cardiovascular Death
- Drinking Alcohol Improves Cholesterol among Postmenopausal Women
- Cholesterol Levels Better for Moderate Drinkers
- Moderate Drinking Lowers Bad Proteins (CRP and IL-6)
- Drinking Alcohol Reduces C-reactive Protein (CRP)
- Alcohol, the Heart and C-reactive Protein (CRP)
- Moderate Drinking Reduces Harmful Heart Plaque
- Drinking Alcohol, Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) and Cardiac Disease
III. Alcohol and Heart Attack Survivability
- Drinking Alcohol Increases Survival from Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI)
- Drinking Alcohol May Lower Risk of Second Heart Attack
- Drinking Alcohol Reduces Heart Attack Damage
- Alcohol Helpful after Stenting
- Alcohol after a Heart Attack Beneficial
- Heart Attack Survival and Alcohol
- Alcohol May Reduce Heart Attack Damage

Collections of articles, readings and references on specific topics.