A drink a day? Mind it doesn’t give your heart the jitters – The Times

Does the thought of your end of day glass of wine set your heart aflutter? Well, unfortunately, so does the wine itself.
Just one small drink a day slightly raises your risk of atrial fibrillation, a condition characterised by an abnormal heartbeat, a study has found.
Although overall the evidence is that low levels of drinking still protect the heart, the research involving more than 100,000 people found that the same was not true when it came to this one condition, which affects about a million…

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