These drinks increase the risk of stroke by 50%

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Your drink choice also matters because ” “predominant” consumption of beer was associated with a higher risk, while wine was not.

Stroke describes a life-threatening medical emergency caused by the interruption of blood supply to part of your brain. Bad lifestyle decisions lay the foundation for this serious condition, with one drink in particular being harmful. New research shows that even moderate consumption can significantly increase the risk.

Even moderate alcohol consumption can increase the chance of having a stroke. Alcohol can increase the risk of an intracerebral hemorrhage — a stroke due to bleeding — by a frightening 50 percent. A global study of 26,000 people worldwide found that both heavy and moderate alcohol consumption were associated with an increased risk of medical emergencies.

A quarter of the sample were current drinkers , and two-thirds were classified as non-drinkers. Unlike previous studies, this study involved people from different ethnic groups in 27 countries.

A stroke can be triggered either by a blood clot, which leads to a so-called ischemic stroke, or by bleeding, which causes an intracerebral hemorrhage.

The results of the study showed that in “current drinkers” the probability of all strokes increased by 14%, and the risk of intracerebral hemorrhage increased by 50%.