People who flush after drinking are at higher risk of alcohol-related hypertension

Excessive drinking is one of the causes for hypertension. A latest study that have in-depth been into the relationship between drinking and flushing it out. The two conditions have been found that drinking is related hypertension has a lower threshold value and higher risk in flushers than in non-flushers. This research got published in journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research suggests that the people who flush out after drinking are at a higher of alcohol related hypertension as compared to those who do not flush out and take its reactions. The co-researcher Jong Sung Kim, head of the department of family medicine at Chungnam National University School of Medicine explains, “Facial flushing after drinking is always considered as a symptom of high alcohol sensitivity or even intolerance to alcohol, unless a patient is taking special medicine. The facial flushing response to drinking usually occurs in a person who cannot genetically break down acetaldehyde, the first metabolite of alcohol.”