00:00It's well known that alcohol is not good for you, with experts sharing a variety of health impacts from harming your liver to causing high blood pressure.
00:08Now, a new study shows that drinking may increase women's risk for a potentially fatal condition.
00:15The study, conducted by Kaiser Permanente, Northern California, looked at nearly 450,000 men and women combined between the ages of 18 and 65.
00:25Experts discovered that women who had on average more than one alcoholic drink daily were at higher risk of developing coronary heart disease.
00:34The National Institute of Health knows that coronary heart disease is a condition that prevents arteries of the heart from delivering enough oxygen-rich blood to the heart.
00:44HuffPost notes that for many people, a heart attack is the first noticeable sign of coronary heart disease.
00:50Researchers found that drinking eight or more alcoholic beverages each week was linked to a 33 to 51 percent higher chance of developing coronary heart disease in young to middle-aged women when compared to women who drank less.
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