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Article: Few drinks weekly might help lower women's blood pressure; Risk factors: Too much alcohol could have the opposite effect
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- March 11, 2002
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CHICAGO (AP) - Women who down a few alcoholic drinks per week face
an almost 15 percent lower chance of developing high blood pressure
than teetotalers, new research shows.
The study also found that consuming more than about 11/2 drinks
daily increases the high blood-pressure risk by 30 percent compared
with nondrinkers. The increased risk was associated equally with
wine, beer and hard liquor.
The reduced risk in light drinkers appeared strongest with beer,
though more research is needed to clarify whether the alcohol type
really makes a difference, said the authors, led by Dr. Ravi Thadhani
of Harvard University Medical School.
The findings are based on 70,891 people ages 25 to 42 who ...