If you enjoy wrapping up your day with a cocktail, your heart might be better off for it, according to the most comprehensive review to date of research into alcohol consumption and cardiovascular disease.
Moderate drinking - no more than one drink a day for women, two for men - is associated with repeatedly proven cardiovascular benefits, according to an analysis of 84 studies over the past 60 years.
Drinkers cut their risk of coronary heart disease by as much as 35 percent, according to the study.
The University of Calgary analysis, which appeared this week in the British Medical Journal, doesn't surprise cardiologists, but its size and scope add weight to the advice they give patients when it comes to booze.
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