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Can Wine Help Men Have Longer Lifespan? Men who drink wine can have longer lifespan. This is definitely good news for those who like to drink. However, this does not mean that one can simply drink as much alcohol as they want. According to researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, drinking up to half a glass of wine per day can help men live up to 5 years longer. The findings were published on April 30, 2009 in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Nevertheless, they also added that when men drink more than half a glass, the life expectancy starts to come down again Basing on research on some 1,373 men between 1960 and 2000, the researchers studied how much and what type of alcohol they drank to assess the impact of their drinking habits on cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, and from all causes. Cerebrovascular disease is the disease of the blood vessels and, especially, the arteries that supply the brain. Being the most important cause, hypertension damages blood vessel lining and endothelium. Sustained hypertension can permanently change the architecture of the blood vessels and make them more vulnerable to fluctuations in blood pressure. A fall in blood pressure during sleep can reduce the blood flow in the narrowed blood vessels and cause ischemic stroke in the morning. On the other hand, a sudden rise in blood pressure during daytime can cause blood vessels to burst resulting in intracranial hemorrhage.
While cerebrovascular disease affects people who are elderly or have a history of diabetes, smoking, or ischemic heart disease, it can cause a stroke, or occasionally a hemorrhagic stroke. Coronary heart disease, also known as coronary artery disease, is a disease that develops when fatty material, calcium, or scar tissue (plaque) accumulates in the arteries that supply the heart with blood. The slowing of blood flow might cause chest pain, or angina. When the blood flow is completely blocked, it might trigger heart attack (myocardial infarction) or a fatal rhythm disturbance (sudden cardiac arrest). About 14 million men and women in the United States were affected by such disease. The study found that drinking wine was strongly associated with a risk of dying from coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and death from all causes. Moreover, the effect depends not only on the amount of alcohol drunk but also on the type of alcohol drunk. Men can live about 2 years longer if they drink up to 20 grams of any type of alcohol per day but can live slightly lesser for those drinking more than 20 grams. Those drinking only less than half a glass a day of wine lived some 2.5 years longer than those who drank beer and spirits. When comparing with non-drinkers, wine drinkers live almost 5 years longer. The weight, diet and smoking habit of the men in the study were tracked. The results held true regardless of socio-economic status, diet or lifestyle. The study however did not draw any conclusions for women. It is also surprise to find that proportion of men drinking alcohol nearly doubled over the 40 years, from 45 percent in 1960 to 86 percent in 2000. Meanwhile, the proportion of those drinking wine jumped from 2 percent to 44 percent over the 40-year period.
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