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Article: Alcohol consumption and AF.
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- Bandolier
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Bandolier loves a mystery, or the appearance of a mystery. Several readers have asked about links between behaviour and atrial fibrillation (AF), specifically about exercise and alcohol. For exercise there seems little direct linkage of prior exercise leading to future AF (though others may know better). For alcohol, the situation is different, in those who imbibe too freely or too well.
The first references linking high alcohol consumption and AF were from Poland in the late 1960s, but the holiday heart syndrome was defined in 1978 [1] as:
An acute cardiac rhythm and/or conduction disturbance associated with heavy ethanol consumption in a person without ...