Drinking, especially binge drinking, can raise blood pressure and heart rate, increase your risk for heart attack, and even lead to a condition called alcoholic cardiomyopathy, a type of heart ...

Chronic patterns of heavy drinking induce end-organ damage including fatty liver and cirrhosis, alcoholic cardiomyopathy and oesophageal varices, some or all of which may be found at autopsy.

Back in 2018 when he was 77, the actor confessed to the "Washington Post" that he had been diagnosed with alcoholic cardiomyopathy. This is a heart disease caused by sustained excessive alcohol ...