Moderate Drinking Is Healthy - For 15 Percent Of The Population
Sunday, January 4, 2015 - 12:40
in Health & Medicine
It's commonly said that moderate alcohol consumption is good for people, but no one knew why and the determination of moderate was arbitrary. A new study of 618 Swedes with coronary heart disease and a control group of 3,000 healthy subjects lent evidence to epidemiological curve-matching. The subjects were assigned to various categories based on the amount of alcohol they consumed and were tested in order to identify a particular genotype (CETP TaqIB) that previous studies suggested played a role in the health benefits of alcohol consumption. The results showed that moderate consumption of alcohol helps protect people against coronary heart disease - if they have the genotype. read more