| Sumario: | Media reports regularly present findings from single studies showing that consumption of alcoholic beverages may decrease the risk of cardiovascular diseases. Such reports can have an effect on individuals' attitudes towards and choices related to consumption of alcoholic beverages. Therefore, it is important that the information conveyed is based on sound scientific evidence. In 2009, The Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services published the report Alcohol and cardiovascular disease -- a literature search for systematic reviews in collaboration with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, commissioned by the The Norwegian Directorate of Health. The mission was to indentify systematic reviews examining the relationship between consumption of alcoholic beverages and the risk of cardiovascular diseases. In total 34 publications were identified. The Public Health Division at the Directorate of Health has now requested an updated report. For this report we searched for litterature published after the 2009 report. We judged the methodological quality of the reviews found both before and after 2009. Results from reviews of good methodological quality (based on the checklists from Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services) are presented.
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