Disease The Rehabilitation and Employment Unit at the College of Nursing at the University of Baghdad organized a workshop on the relationship between alcohol and heart disease, as part of its efforts to raise awareness of the importance of public health. It was presented by Professor Dr. Hakima Shaker Hassan and attended by a group of academic nurses and postgraduate students at the Ibn Al-Bitar Center for Cardiovascular Surgery. The workshop aimed to clarify the close relationship between alcohol consumption and various heart diseases and the effect of alcohol on vital heart functions. This workshop emphasizes the importance of adopting healthy lifestyles to prevent heart disease, as it came out with a set of recommendations, the most important of which are quitting smoking, eating fruits and vegetables in abundance, reducing fat intake, exercising regularly, and avoiding alcohol consumption. The workshop contributes to achieving the third goal of the Sustainable Development Goals, which is “Good Health and Well-Being”, by promoting healthy lifestyles. This workshop comes within the framework of the Rehabilitation, Employment and Follow-up Unit program, supervised by the Deanship of the College, with the aim of raising the level of health awareness among students and health workers and educating the community about the harms of alcohol on heart health.

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