Downing a beer a day alters the structure of fibrinogen, a blood protein active in clotting. The preliminary finding by an international research team could be good news for people with artery-narrowing atherosclerosis. They might be able to diminish their risk of heart attacks and strokes by routinely lifting a mug.
For their investigation, Shela Gorinstein of the Hebrew University–Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem and her colleagues recruited 48 men who had just recovered from coronary-artery-bypass surgery.
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