Article: Red wine against smoking.

2003 SEP 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a study recently presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress, researchers showed that the constituents of red wine, other than alcohol, counteracted acute arterial dysfunction that is present after smoking one cigarette.

"Our findings showed that two glasses (250 ml) of red wine suspend the harmful effect of one cigarette and leads us to further investigate constituents of red wine that could reverse arterial dysfunction caused by smoking," said John Lekakis, department of clinical therapeutics, Alexandra University Hospital, Athens.

The study was performed at the vascular laboratory of Alexandra ...

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