Moderate Drinking Might Help Men Live Longer After Heart Attack – Health News – Health.com

A drink or two per day may help lower a man’s odds of death in the two decades following a heart attack, a new study suggests.

The research, which appears online March 28 in the European Heart Journal, included more than 1,800 American men who survived a first heart attack between 1986 and 2006 and were followed for up to 20 years. During that time, 468 of the men died.

Men who drank about two alcoholic drinks (between 10 and about 30 grams of alcohol) per day over a long period of time had a 14 percent lower risk of death from any cause, and a 42 percent lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease, than nondrinkers, the study found.

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