A new study to be published this week in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology has found that light to moderate consumption of alcohol is associated with lower rates of cardiovascular disease when compared to teetotaling. It was a large study involving  245,000 American adults.

Light alcohol intake has long thought to be heart protective mainly through increasing HDL. As with all other similar studies, there are many confounding factors and no one claims to know the ideal amount of alcohol intake. While light alcohol intake was associated with lower rates of cardiovascular disease, moderate alcohol intake showed even better results. Heavy drinking was not associated with higher or lower rates of CV disease.

When I was in active practice I had several ministers I took care of that loved the results of these types of studies.  bjmdjd

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Journal of the American College of Cardiology