Archive for the ‘Alcohol’ Category

Wine and women - double the pleasure!

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Women who had two glasses of wine a day, significantly increased their "good" cholesterol levels also call HDL cholesterol. This has shown to have a cardio-protective effect compared to the "bad" cholesterol, called LDL cholesterol, which has shown to damaging to patients. Which is better, red or white ...

The Effect of Alcohol on the Heart after MI

Friday, November 9th, 2007

  Long term alcohol use may have many deleterious effects on the human body but little is known on the prognostic implications of drinking after a person suffers an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or "heart attack". European investigators seeking to answer this question enrolled 1346 consecutive patients between ages ...