Studie zeigt, dass jede Menge Alkohol den Blutdruck erhöhen kann. Bereits ein geringfügiger Anstieg des Alkoholkonsums geht mit einem höheren Blutdruck einher. In der Vergangenheit dachten Wissenschaftler, dass kleine Mengen Alkohol in Ordnung sein könnten, aber neue Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass kein Alkohol tatsächlich am besten ist.

I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:

https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2025.09.018

From the linked article:

**Study finds any amount of alcohol can increase blood pressure**

**Even slight increases in alcohol consumption are associated with higher blood pressure**, researchers reported Wednesday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Stopping drinking, or even cutting back, might lead to reductions in blood pressure that would lower a person’s risk of stroke or heart disease, researchers said.

The results challenge long-standing assumptions that a drink here or there won’t meaningfully affect a person’s blood pressure, experts said.

„Our study shows that when it comes to BP, the less you drink, the better. The more alcohol you drink, the higher your BP goes,“ said lead researcher Dr. Takahiro Suzuki, a cardiologist at St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo.

„**In the past, scientists thought that small amounts of alcohol might be okay, but our results suggest that no alcohol is actually best**,“ Suzuki said in a news release. „This means that stopping drinking, even at low levels, could bring real heart health benefits for both women and men.“

For the study, researchers analyzed data from nearly 360,000 annual check-ups at St. Luke’s between 2012 to 2024. As part of their check-up, patients reported their alcohol intake.

Women who stopped having one to two drinks per day saw a decrease of nearly .8 mmHG in their systolic BP and 1.1 mmHG diastolic. Systolic, the top number in a blood pressure reading, is the pressure in blood vessels during a heartbeat, and diastolic is the pressure between heartbeats.

Men who stopped drinking experienced a reduction of 1 mmHG systolic and 1.6 diastolic, researchers said.

Conversely, people who started drinking showed higher blood pressure, with similar trends across sexes.

Increases in blood pressure did not vary based on the type of alcohol, be it beer, wine or hard liquor, researchers found. Instead, the quantity of alcohol consumed was what mattered.