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...addition to studying the effects lifestyle can have on the risk of cardiovascular disease, Rimm studies the association between alcohol consumption and the risk of diabetes, blood pressure and mortality rates...
Subsequent studies have confirmed those findings in other areas of the world and have also found health benefits in other types of alcohol...
Although the Harvard study further expands the possible health benefits of alcohol, Rimm said it does not necessarily mean people should start drinking every day. The study looked at 38,000 men over a 12-year period and found that those who began the study drinking several times a month and increased to several times a week did experience significantly lower risk of heart attack. But those men who started out teetotalers and then began drinking did not see the same benefits...
According to a press release from the School of Public Health, Kenneth Mukamal, assistant professor of medicine and the study’s lead author, said the importance of regular alcohol consumption may be due to the short-lived influence alcohol has on our bodies...
...study did not find any negative effects associated with alcohol consumption, although Rimm noted that, because the pool of research subjects was drawn exclusively from the health profession, it did not include a significant number of heavy drinkers...