Sunday, December 28, 2008

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S. Vice President Dick Cheney, who has a history of heart problems, was treated for atrial fibrillation in October.
"Small to moderate amounts of alcohol -- up to two drinks a day -- do not appear to be associated with an increased risk," said Dr. Christine Albert of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, one of the researchers in the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"But if you do drink more than two drinks a day and you're looking for a way to decrease your risk of atrial fibrillation, it may be that reducing alcohol consumption may be helpful."
Only about 4 percent of the women in the study reported drinking that much.
Albert said in a telephone interview the study's design does not allow the researchers to state with certainty that the drinking caused the , she said.
"Most of the studies that have looked at alcohol and atrial fibrillation were done primarily in men. So we had wantedbe different, but also women drink different amounts of alcohol than men and have different drinking patterns," Albert said.

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