The hormone estrogen helps keep blood vessels open and flexible and is generally thought to help protect women from heart disease. These higher estrogen levels may lead to fewer heart attacks and strokes in premenopausal women than in men of the same age. However, alcohol exposure worsens cardiovascular function more in women than in men, researchers have said. Also, in previous animal studies, alcohol has been confirmed to worsen heart function more in those animals with the highest estrogen levels. This study explored whether several measures of heart function and the proteins that regulate it differed with regular alcohol exposure Read More
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