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Does alcohol affect heart valves, does it weaken them.?
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Alcohol: May be not so much heart valves as heart itself. It can cause alcoholic cardiomyopathy, which means that heart is big and also getting weak.
Answered 5/24/2015
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Etoh: alcohol generally affects heart muscle more than heart valves
Answered 11/6/2014
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Decreased EF: A study was conducted with 100 medical students.Echocardiogram was done on all of them & 50 were given 2 pegs of whisky & the other 50 with placebo. Repeat Echo revealed 10-15% derease in EF of whisky group Keep off alcohol if you have congestiveheart failure. So far no proved effect on cardiac valves.
Answered 11/6/2014
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