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Alcohol Effect Elusive

Written by Professor Gordon S. Lynch

News that alcohol can help protect drinkers against heart disease is cause enough for a toast. But why is it so? How does alcohol help our hearts?

Many studies have reported that moderate alcohol consumption can protect against heart disease. The big question is how? Some have speculated that drinking alcohol causes increases in HDL (good) cholesterol or prevents unnecessary blood clots. Whether alcohol can prevent some of the steps involved hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis), however, is not clear.

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