Alcoholic heart disease in the elderly

As early as 1884, in the autopsy, Bollinger found that the heart of the long-term beer drinker had enlarged significantly, and it was called the Munich beer heart. Since the 20th century, a large number of clinical and animal tests have proven that long-term excessive drinking can cause cardiomyopathy characterized by reduced cardiac output. Since 1985, many scholars have advocated the use of alcoholic heart disease as the disease name. Because its cause is mainly alcohol, and cardiac systolic function can be significantly improved after abstinence, and its lesions are not limited to the heart muscle.

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