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  2. What Happens to Your Body When You Drink a Glass of Wine ...

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    “Heavy drinking raises blood pressure, increases triglycerides, promotes inflammation and can cause arrhythmias, all of which elevate the risk of heart disease and stroke,” says Routhenstein.

  3. What Happens to Your Body When You Drink Alcohol Regularly

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    Here’s how the long-term consequences of excessive drinking can gradually take a toll on your health. 1. Your Liver May Be Damaged. When you overindulge in alcohol, your liver, which is ...

  4. Long-term effects of alcohol - Wikipedia

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    The level of ethanol consumption that minimizes the risk of disease, injury, and death is subject to some controversy. [16] Several studies have found a J-shaped relationship between alcohol consumption and health, [17] [18] [2] [19] meaning that risk is minimized at a certain (non-zero) consumption level, and drinking below or above this level increases risk, with the risk level of drinking a ...

  5. Alcohol and cardiovascular disease - Wikipedia

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    III. For people who consumed 6 or more drinks per day, reduction rate on blood pressure was the strongest when they reduced alcohol consumption close to abstinence. IV. The effect of alcohol reduction on blood pressure is still unclear for women and hypertensive patients who consume less than three drinks per day due to limited clinical trials.

  6. Alcohol intolerance - Wikipedia

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    Individuals with alcohol intolerance will experience unpleasant reactions immediately after drinking alcohol. [13] [5] [6] Common signs and symptoms of alcohol intolerance include nasal congestion, skin flushing (redness), headaches, low blood pressure, nausea, and vomiting. [5] [6] [13]

  7. Alcohol is not good for us. 5 tips to stay safe(r) if you drink

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    That equals about 12 ounces of regular beer (at 5% alcohol; some light beers have less) or 5 ounces of wine (at 12% alcohol) or 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits (at 40% alcohol or 80 proof ...

  8. Health effects of wine - Wikipedia

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    A glass of red wine. The health effects of wine are mainly determined by its active ingredient – alcohol. [1] [2] Preliminary studies found that drinking small quantities of wine (up to one standard drink per day for women and one to two drinks per day for men), particularly of red wine, may be associated with a decreased risk of cardiovascular diseases, cognitive decline, stroke, diabetes ...

  9. A very small glass of wine might be good for the heart, study ...

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    The 1,232 participants in the current study had type 2 diabetes or risk factors such as smoking tobacco, high cholesterol and blood pressure, were overweight or obese and/or had a family history ...