Analysis of Red Wine's Impact on Heart Disease in People Over 50

This essay critically analyzes the effects of red wine on preventing heart disease in people over fifty years of age. It explores the increasing consumption of red wine and its potential health benefits, such as the presence of polyphenols, resveratrol, and quercetin, which may reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases, blood clots, inflammation, and cholesterol levels. The essay also addresses the potential negative impacts, including increased blood pressure, metabolic syndrome, and the importance of moderate consumption, with recommendations of one glass per day for women and two for men. It considers the controversy surrounding the role of alcohol and other factors like smoking and dietary issues, concluding that red wine can be a supportive measure for heart health, but only when consumed within recommended limits, as excessive intake can lead to detrimental effects on the heart and overall health, especially in older adults.

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Red Wine is one of the highly consumed wines in the world with an increasing
preference for the wine due to various factors. The consumption of Red Wine has increased to
240 million hectoliters in 2015, which shows the consumption of Red Wine is increasing at a
faster rate. Such an increase in Red Wine is due to factors such as increasing standard of people,
health benefits among adults above fifty years of age and used in making food item. However,
there are also evidences that show that high consumption of Red Wine has various detrimental
effects on health (Mansvelt et al., 2016). This essay critically analyses the effects of Red Wine
on preventing heart disease of the people aged above fifty years of age. The research analyses all
the factors showing good effects of Red Wine on heart as well as bad effects of Red Wine and
finally reach to a conclusion.
Heart attack and cardiovascular diseases is a type of death caused due to reduction in the
flow of blood supply to the heart. It is also seen that a failure in the heart muscles cause a pain I
the heart and cardiac infarction. Various causes result in cardiovascular diseases I the people.
Some of the common systems of heart attack are chest pain and discomfort (Muñoz-González,
2014). However, it is evident that risk of heart attack is more in the people above forty-five years
of age. A major factor that is resulting an increase in heart problems is increasing obesity in the
old people and smoking in the old men population. Other causes are cholesterol, genetics,
surgery, HIV and diabetes which needs to be addressed as fast as possible. On the other hand,
patients need some easy way to get rid of heart attack that the can readily follow (Varbo et al.,
2013).
Increasing number of heart attack among people there is an increasing concern and
requires a solution. The most common solution that came up with this regard is of consumption
of Red Wine. The doctors in today’s world are highly recommending the consumption of Red

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Wine in order to cope up with the heart patients and reduce their problems. It is one of the easy
ways a person can reduce their heart problem as wine and people of all age group love alcohol
consumption. Red Wine consumption is also recommended by various nutritionist to the people
suffering from heart and diabetes diseases. They recommend adding consumption of Red Wine
in the daily diet of the people. However, there is also a stated limit to the consumption of wine in
a day (Ferrara et al., 2013).
Cardiovascular is a disease that is increasing day-by-day among older people ad 30
percent of death is caused due to heart problems. Thus having a solution to this problem that is
easy and good is drawing a great attention of researchers. Red Wine is suggested to be one of the
most highly consumed beverages among people over the world and has a lot of potential to
reduce heart problems. Red Wine contains a good amount of Polyphenols, which has a long-term
health benefits on the adults (Quiñ ones, Miguel & Aleixandre, 2013). There have been evidences
showing that the amount of Polyphenols contained in the Red Wine has good effects on the
cardiovascular diseases. The evidences showing the beneficial effect of Red Wine on the
cardiovascular disease is essential because heart diseases are most common problem in today’s
world especially on the older people. Polyphenols have great vascular effects as its increase the
liquid proportion in the lipoprotein. Thus, preventing the amount of inflammation caused in the
heart. Inflammation is one of the serious causes of heart problem and a reduction in the
percentage of inflammation will reduce heart problem in a large way. Moreover, There are
further evidences that show that Red Wine is one of the highly antioxidant contained beverages
and it has a ten time greater effects on the health of people compared to any other Vitamins
(Kane et al., 2015).

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According to Chiva-Blanch et al (2013), moderate consumption of Red Wine daily has a
beneficial effect on the heart of aged people above fifty years of age. However, the article also
stated that whether the beneficial effect s due to the non-alcoholic contains of the wine is still not
researched. The evidences just show that regular consumption of Red Wine has lead to a
reduction of both fatal and non-fatal risk caused due to heart attacks. Further, it is seen that
Resveratrol reduces the risk of blood clots, inflammation and reduces the amount of cholesterol
contained, thus, causing a reduction in the risk of heart attack. This is because cholesterol is one
of the most increasing concerns among the older people in today’s world and the most crucial
reason of heart diseases. However, there are researches that show that the beneficial effect of red
wine can only be achieved by moderate consumption of Red Wine in a day. It has been advised
by the doctors that in order to get the maximum amount of benefits from Red Wine it is
necessary that women consume it ones in a day and men only twice in a day. On the other hand,
it is recommended that seven glasses of wine on a week can give the desired result. More than
this amount may cause detrimental effects on the heart. Heart problem also causes stroke in the
people and it has been stated by University School of Medicine that consumption of Red Wine
also increases enzyme in the older people called heme oxygenase (Alexander, 2017). This
reduces the chances of stroke in the aged people as the enzyme protects the nerve cell present in
the rains of people. However, there is a controversy put forward by other authors that there is no
clear example of whether resveratrol needs the usage of alcohol or wine in order to improve its
quality. Quercetin is yet another factor present in the red wine, which adds to its flavor. It is a
type of antioxidant that improves the functioning of the heart. This antioxidant has been found to
improve the efficiency of left ventricle, thus, affecting the hearts of the older people positively.

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On contrast to the beneficial effect of Red Wine, there are evidences that have proved
that regular consumption of Red Wine has actually resulted in negative impact on the health and
heart of aged people. This is because the blood pressure and the platelets contained in blood rises
just after the consumption of Red Wine, which causes severe heart failure and heart blockage
problem. This negative effect is usually due to high consumption of Red Wine above the
suggested level to the aged people. Moreover, it has also been researched that the positive impact
of Red Wine has not been seen in the patients suffering from chronic heart problem. The gap in
the research about the actual impact of Red Wine on the health of elderly is mainly due to
differences in socio economics culture. Some of the society consumes Red Wine in their daily
meal, while some of them consume them during occasions (Cosmi et al., 2015). This becomes
difficult for the researchers to map out the impact of Red Wine on the health of the people all
over the world. in a research with consumption of wine across various society it has been seen
that the risk factor is positively correlated with the cardiovascular problems. The correlation
between cardiovascular problem and wine consumption was as high as 21 percent among the
patients with heart problem. It has been analyzed that drinking excess wine increases the weight
among the elderly causing issue of obesity and hypertension. Increase percentage of obesity and
tension in turn effects the life of the old people. This is because excess accumulation of fats
around the heart causes heart blockage resulting in heart attack. Consuming a lot of wine in a day
increases the intake of calories, which is more than the normal limit (NewsComAu, 2017).
Another adverse impact of wine is seen to be metabolic syndrome, which has a lot of negative
multiplier effect. One such problems being severe heart problem among the older age people.
However, there are also evidences that show that the reason behind heart problem among the
people consuming red wine is smoking and dietary issues as well. This resulted that red wine is

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not only the reason behind the cause of heart attack among the elderly. This is because the people
consuming high amount of red wine were also consumed other harmful things such as smoking,
MUFA, PUFA, high amount of cholesterol and others. Thus, red wine adds to the harmful effect
of this and causes severe cardiovascular problem (Chiva-Blanch et al., 2013).
According to a recent news it has been stated that healthy older people consumes a large
number of wine compared to younger ones. This is the reason any impact of red wine is first seen
on the older people than on the younger ones. The study showing that red wine is not effective
for the heart has also analyzed that people with occasionally drinking habit will not put any
effect on the heart. This reduces that myth that red wine consumption improves or degrades the
quality of the heart. Any effect of wine is seen on the health only if it is consumed on a daily
basis (Harman-Boehm et al., 2015). However, with such evidences against the consumption of
red wine it is also seen that older people are more prone to drink occasionally rather than on a
regular basis. This puts less impact on the older people compared to younger ones. Red wine
might have good impacts on the heart of the people; however, it is not good for other body parts
of the people. Thus, the amount of consumption should be reduced to a minimal amount in order
to gain from it. On the other hand, in the long run over consumption of red wine may cause the
heart muscles to stretch and slow down the heartbeat. Moreover, it may also cause the blood
pressure to fluctuate causing stroke. This is because compared to young people, the heart of old
people are week and fragile (Tresserra-Rimbau et al., 2015).
From the above analysis, it can be deduced that red wine has both log tern and short-term
effect on the heart of the older people. The above discussion has shown that red wine has some
positive impact on the old people’s heart because of high content of quercetin, resveratrol and
polyphenols. However, it also put some negative impact on the heart by increasing the chances

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of obesity among the consumers. This is because obesity intake increases pressure on the heart
and leads to blockage. It causes other detrimental effect such as low heartbeat and blood pressure
fluctuation. However, it has been analyzed that positive impact of red wine is more than its
negative impact only if the wine is consumed under a certain limit. This is because heart of old
people is already week because of age concern. Any further pressure on it due to high win
consumption may create harmful effect. Thus, it can be seen that red wine is to a cure for the
heart problem and any cardiovascular issues I old people. It is just a kind of stepping stone on
which they can rely. However, crossing the limit of consumption may affect them negatively
rather than positively. It is recommended that women consume only one glass of wine per day
and two glasses per day is recommended for men. This will help them gain a positive impact of
red wine rather them making it a harmful thing for themselves. Thus, in order to get the full gain
of red wine and cure heart disease a person should stay within the stated limit of consumption.

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