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Want
to lower your risk of having a heart attack? Drink more water,
and less of everything else, new research reports.
Researchers
at Loma Linda University in California found that people who
drank at least five glasses of water each day were less likely
to die from heat attack than those who drank two or fewer
glasses per day.
In
contrast, people who drank a lot of other fluids (soda, juice,
coffee, tea) were more likely to die from heart attack than
those who drank less, with high levels of non-water drinking
women associated with more than a two-fold increased risk
of death.
Officials
at the college said the results of a study to be published
in the American Journal of Epidemiology reveal that drinking
high amounts of plain water is as important as exercise, diet,
or not smoking in preventing coronary heart disease.
"Basically,
not drinking enough water can be as harmful to your heart
as smoking," said Dr. Jacqueline Chan, principle investigator
and lead author of the article.
The
study, "Water, Other Fluids, and Fatal Coronary Heart
Disease," followed the participants for 6 years. They
found that women who drank more than five 8-ounce glasses
of water a day were 41% less likely to die from heart attack
during the study period than those who drank two or fewer
glasses. In high-water consuming men, that risk decreased
by 54%.
But when they looked at consumption of other fluids, including
coffee,tea, juice, milk and alcohol, the risk was reversed,
with women exhibiting a more than two-fold higher risk of
dying of heart attack and men a 46% increased risk.
While
not glamorous, the degree of benefit from drinking plain water
reportedly surpasses drinking moderate amounts of alcohol,
taking aspirin, and other preventive measures, with none of
the adverse side effects. The researchers believe that when
people drink water, it becomes absorbed in the blood, which
decreases blood "thickness." This lowers the risk
of developing a heart attack-triggering blood clot.
Other
fluids can thicken the blood because in order to be digested,
they need to contain the same concentrations of particles
as blood. Upon digestion, the fluids need to be diluted, so
water gets pulled from the blood into the stomach.
Drinking
more water has no side effects and can only do you good.
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