Alcohol and cardiac arrhythmias.
Chronic alcohol overconsumption increases the risk for sudden death presumably due to ventricular arrhythmias. This paper is a review of the mechanisms behind alcohol-induced arrhythmias and describe the incidence of alcohol-related ventricular arrhythmias.
Rosenqvist
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Department of Cardiology, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects*; D000818:Animals; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology*; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D012306:Risk; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000209:etiology