Myocardium
infarct occurs when the cardiac muscle is deprived of oxygenated
blood. Coronary arteries, providing blood are obstructed or
blocked up. Cholesterol appears to be the principal factor
responsible for this.
In 1786, the English Doctor Herbeden already noted that wine
relieved pains of patients suffering from angina pectoris.
In 1970, researches where initiated by Doctor Arthur Klatsky,
cardiologist at the "Kaiser Permanente", hospital center in
Oakland (California). He initiated a study on over 100 000
people.
The first results where published in 1974, and indicate the
fact that the risk of death from coronary diseases (notably
myocardium infarct) is lower for moderate consumers (1 to
3 glasses of wine a day): 6,2 to a 1 000 against 8,2 to a
1 000 for people who do not drink wine and 11 to one thousand
for people drinking more than six glasses of wine a day.
Doctor Rimm of the School of Public Health of Harvard - Cambridge
- Massachusetts calculated that the risk of heart disease
is reduced from 25 to 45% for people drinking 1 or 2 glasses
of wine a day.
According to a study by Doctor Saint-Leger, published in the
famous English medical publication "The Lancet" in 1979, France
and Italy, largest consumers of wine (62 litres of wine a
year per inhabitant) registers the number of death due to
myocardium infarct 2 to 5 times inferior to death registered
in Scotland, Ireland and United States.
An other study published in "The Lancet" a year later, signed
by Doctor Werth, shows that between 1952 and 1978 consumption
of wine in the States rose by 52% and that at the same time
death due to myocardium infarct fell down by 22%.
According to a study by Doctor Dean, for an equal consumption
the risk of death by myocardium infarct is 1,03 for beer-drinkers,
1,00 for spirit-drinkers and only 0,47 for wine-drinkers.
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