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Subject: [OM] OT red wine and heart disease
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 02:31:32 -0800
Association has been shown, but not causality. It could be, for example, that the physiological and/or personality types who tend to drink moderately (yes, the positive association only applies to rather moderate dirnking of the magic elixir) and choose red wine are also less subject to heart disease. No controlled double blind tests have been conducted. Probably will never be practical to do so.
I was in a 10 year study of heart disease treatment (for those who had 
no detectable disease at the beginning of the test) run by Meyer 
Friedman, the cardiologist who coined the term "Type A behavior" He told 
us how pleased he was for a young friend, a female MD, who was going to 
France for one of those studies on red wine, dietary fat, etc. in the 
French diet. He was of the firm opinion that the differences in rates of 
heart disease there vs. the US were primarily attributable to cultural 
and psychological differences and the resulting differences in 
physiological states. So he thought the study was a waste of resources, 
but was happy for his friend who would get to live in France for a 
while. At the time the study I was in started, the behavioral treatment 
he was testing had proven in a previous study to be the most 
statistically successful treatment for prevention of further heart 
attack and  resulting length of survival for those who had already had a 
first heart attack.
Moose

Wayne Harridge wrote:

Actually I thought somebody had already proven that drinking red wine
was beneficial (not sure why now - but who cares).




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