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09-15-2004, 07:22 AM
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Drinking moderate amounts of alcohol can cut further narrowing of the arteries in patients who have had heart surgery, researchers said on Tuesday.
The benefits of drinking reasonable amounts of alcohol to reduce the risk of heart disease are well known, but scientists at Heidelberg University in Germany have shown that even after the damage has been done and repaired, alcohol has a protective effect.
In patients who had surgery to open up a blocked artery, alcohol cut the risk of restenosis, or re-narrowing of the treated artery, which occurs in 30-40 percent of patients in the first four months afterwards.
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The benefits of drinking reasonable amounts of alcohol to reduce the risk of heart disease are well known, but scientists at Heidelberg University in Germany have shown that even after the damage has been done and repaired, alcohol has a protective effect.
In patients who had surgery to open up a blocked artery, alcohol cut the risk of restenosis, or re-narrowing of the treated artery, which occurs in 30-40 percent of patients in the first four months afterwards.
Full Story (http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/09/14/heart.drinking.reut/index.html)
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Learn from the mistakes of others, you won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.