Host: Lee Freedman, MD

Guest: Dana King, MD

The cardiovascular benefits of moderate alcohol consumption have been studied with positive results in the alcohol consuming population. But what about non-drinkers? Should we be recommending a drink or two a day to our patients currently abstaining from alcohol? Dr. Dana King, Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, speaks with your host, Dr. Lee Freedman, regarding the surprising results of a study published in the American Journal of Medicine exploring the benefits of initiating alcohol consumption in middle age.