Which disease does moderate drinking raise the risk of?
hypertensive men, moderate drinking may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease. However, in men and women at moderate risk of heart disease, pomegranate juice appears to have no effect on the overall progression of carotid intima-media thickness, according to two studies in the Oct. 1 American Journal of Cardiology. Kathryn A. Britton, M.D., of Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues analyzed 1982 to 2008 data on 5,164 participants in the Physicians’ Health Study. Compared to consumption of less than one alcoholic drink per week, their adjusted analysis showed that consumption of one to four drinks, five to seven drinks, and more than eight drinks per week was associated with a decreasing risk of myocardial infarction (hazard ratios, 1.05, 0.78, and 0.57, respectively). Michael H. Davidson, M.D., of the University of Chicago, and colleagues randomly assigned 289 patients with more than one major coronary heart disease risk factor and a baseline posterior wall carotid intima
