showed about the same form [110]. The pattern of light to moderate regular alcohol consumption with no heavy drinking occasions also reduces the risk for recurrence after an IHD event [111] and among people with existing IHD risk factors, such as diabetes [112;113] or hypertension [114], whereas a drinking pattern that includes heavy drinking occasions, even when usual consumption is light or moderate, has been related to an increase in IHD risk [115-118]. Chronic heavy alcohol use, on the other hand, has been associated with adverse cardiac outcomes, not only IHD but also dilated cardiomyopathy or cardiac dysrhythmias (see below and [119]).
