Holiday Heart Syndrome

Holiday Heart Syndrome Revisited after 34 Years

The cardiovascular effects of alcohol are well known. However, most research has focused on the beneficial effects (the "French paradox") of moderate consumption or the harmful consequences, such as dilated cardiomyopathy, associated with heavy consumption over an extended period. An association between the ingestion of acute alcohol and onset of cardiac arrhythmias was first reported in the ea...

G 1 ( 14 ) Holiday Heart Syndrome

Background Alcohol consumed in large quantities for many years has long been recognized to induce an alcoholic cardiomyopathy. Clinically identical to idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, alcoholic cardiomyopathy is a major form of secondary dilated cardiomyopathy in the Western world. (See Medscape Reference articles Alcoholic Cardiomyopathy and Dilated Cardiomyopathy.) With this change in cardi...

Holiday musings.

A M d his Editor’s Page is being written during the Christmas reak, a traditional period of family reunions, relaxation, ecreation, and reflection. It is often a time when people tep back and try to put the daily activities in which their ives are immersed into a broader perspective. In that spirit, thought I would share with you some of my musings uring this time. The first issue that occurred...

Women's Holiday Fund

Sir,?May we once more through the columns of your paper call attention to the valuable work that is being done by the Women's Holiday Fund on behalf of those whose lives are passed in dismal surroundings and weighed down by heavy responsibilities and anxieties ? It is not sufficiently realized how great are the demands made upon the strength and courage of the working woman, and that she is wor...

Constructions on Holiday