date:May 03, 2016
come their addiction. There is no justification for nondrinkers to start consuming wine as a preventive measure, considering that several other well-proven therapies exist for cardiovascular risk reduction, such as exercise, smoking cessation, blood pressure control, and cholesterol lowering, that do not have wines undesirable effects.
For those patients who are established moderate drinkers, abstention should not be enforced. Increasing alcohol consumption for the purposes of cardioprotection,