--- title: Three Daily Cocktails May Boost Stroke Risk, Study Says description: More than two drinks per day was defined by the study's authors as "heavy" drinking canonical: https://time.com/3689209/alcohol-stroke-risk/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-30T11:23:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T04:00:42.395Z article:section: Health og:title: Three Daily Cocktails May Boost Stroke Risk, Study Says og:description: More than two drinks per day was defined by the study's authors as "heavy" drinking og:url: https://time.com/3689209/alcohol-stroke-risk/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Three Daily Cocktails May Boost Stroke Risk, Study Says twitter:description: More than two drinks per day was defined by the study's authors as "heavy" drinking twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Buzz Kill: Three Daily Alcoholic Drinks May Boost Stroke Risk by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Jan 30, 2015 11:23 AM CUT by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Jan 30, 2015 11:23 AM CUT You may want to keep that third beer of the night stashed in your fridge. People in their 50s and 60s who down more than two alcoholic beverages daily have a 34 percent higher risk of stroke compared to lighter drinkers — and are more apt to suffer a stroke five years earlier in life regardless of their genetics or their other health habits, asserts a study released Thursday. In fact, sipping beyond a two-drink maximum each day may boost a middle-aged person’s stroke risk more than even traditional health dangers like high blood pressure and diabetes, say researchers who base their findings on tracking more than 11,000 Swedish twins for roughly half their lives. [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/buzz-kill-3-daily-cocktails-may-boost-stroke-risk-study-n296356?cid=par-time-article%5F20150130 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3689209/alcohol-stroke-risk/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3689209/alcohol-stroke-risk/"},"headline":"Buzz Kill: Three Daily Alcoholic Drinks May Boost Stroke Risk","datePublished":"2015-01-30T11:23:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:00:42.395Z","description":"More than two drinks per day was defined by the study's authors as \"heavy\" drinking","url":"https://time.com/3689209/alcohol-stroke-risk/","keywords":["Alcohol","Diet & Nutrition"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/alcohol/","name":"Alcohol"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3689209/alcohol-stroke-risk/","name":"Buzz Kill: Three Daily Alcoholic Drinks May Boost Stroke Risk"}}]}] ```