Bypass patients can benefit from a few drinks

[Elmore Furth]

Bottoms up!

Sun, Nov 14 2010

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Men who underwent heart bypass surgery and consumed about two drinks a day afterward had fewer subsequent cardiovascular procedures than those who abstained, according to a study released Sunday.

Light alcohol consumption was associated with a 25 percent reduction in additional heart procedures, heart attacks or strokes in the study by Italian researchers, presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Chicago.

"The benefit of light amounts of alcohol consumption has been documented in healthy individuals, but our analysis showed a benefit from light alcohol intake in post-coronary bypass patients," said Dr. Umberto Benedetto, of the University of Rome La Sapienza.

However, bypass patients with a condition called left ventricular dysfunction who were heavy drinkers, defined as having more than six drinks daily, were twice as likely to die from heart problems, the study found.


Bypass patients can benefit from a few drinks

[veganlush]

1. ok, i got the drinking part covered...

..now i guess i just need a bypass!

[madokie]

2. I quit drinking because of my circulation problem

mostly quit toking for my lung condition and this makes me wonder if maybe I ought'n be doing either.