Moderate alcohol consumption may help heart bypass patients

Moderate alcohol consumption may help heart bypass patients

Men who undergo heart bypass operation could deduce that should not drink. But the new study recommends that moderate consumption after major surgery may have beneficial effects. The research team at the University of Rome, found that patients who had bypass two drinks a day after the surgery requires fewer cardiac events compared with abstainers.
Moderate alcohol consumption was associated with the twenty percent reduction in additional heart attacks, strokes and cardiac events. The health benefits of moderate drinking had already been documented in healthy individuals. However, his research showed benefits of moderate alcohol consumption in bypass patients, said study author Dr. Umberto Benedetto, University of Rome La Sapienza.


At the same time, the study also showed that bypass patients who had the habit of excessive drinking as six or more drinks a day were twice as likely to die of heart problems. In a study by Italian researchers used a questionnaire to assess alcohol consumption in more than a thousand men who underwent coronary bypass surgery.


The clinical history of patients was reviewed by more than three years. There was no association between unfavorable moderate alcohol consumption and intake of any drug taking, said the study presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Chicago.


It is recommended by the American Heart Association that men are limited to two drinks per day and women should be limited to one drink per day. They believe that excessive consumption of alcohol can increase blood pressure and may have other adverse effects in the body.