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The cardioprotective effects of alcohol consumption: does cardiac autonomic function play a role?

Britton A, Malik M, Marmot M

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 6BT, UK, a.britton@ucl.ac.uk.

Moderate alcohol consumption has cardioprotective properties and several mechanisms have been proposed. In over 4,000 men and women from the Whitehall II study, mean heart rate variability levels were lowest among those consuming the most alcohol per week, but in multivariate analyses no statistical associations were found. The cardiac autonomic nervous system is unlikely to explain much of the cardioprotective properties of alcohol.

Published 24 January 2008 in Eur J Epidemiol, 23(2): 105-8.
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