Moderate red wine consumption and cardiovascular disease risk: Beyond the French Paradox

Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-70

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a   Franchini, Massimo ^a   Favaloro, Emmanuel J ^b   Targher, Giovanni ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Cardiovascular disease; Coronary artery disease; Wine

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; CHOLESTEROL; FIBRINOGEN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; POLYPHENOL DERIVATIVE; RESVERATROL; SATURATED FATTY ACID; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FAT INTAKE; FIBRINOLYSIS; FOAM CELL; FRANCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LIPID OXIDATION; MORTALITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED WINE; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE ADHESION;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANTIOXIDANTS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEMOSTASIS; HUMANS; STILBENES; WINE;

EID: 77951047303     PISSN: 00946176     EISSN: 10989064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1248725     Document Type: Review

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