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oderate consumption of alcohol may reduce the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, according to a new study.
Women who regularly consume more than three alcoholic drinks a week for at least 10 years have about half the risk of developing arthritis compared with non-drinkers, according to a study of 34,141 Swedish women by the Stockholm-based Karolinska Institute. The reduced risk was consistent whether the participants drank beer, wine or liquor.
The results, published yesterday in the British Medical Journal, add to other studies that have observed positive effects of moderate drinking. Men who have two drinks a day after surviving a first heart attack have a lower risk of death from heart disease than non-drinkers, Harvard researchers said this year.
These results are in accordance with the inverse association between moderate alcohol consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease and add to the evidence that moderate alcohol consumption is not harmful, the Swedish study authors, including Alicja Wolk and Daniela Di Giuseppe, wrote in their report.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-10/three-drinks-weekly-may-halve-arthritis-risk-study-says.html
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)I'll drink to that!
Lugnut
(9,791 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)i only remember the booze when family comes over.
marasinghe
(1,253 posts)when i drink gin, my joints ache.
on the plus side it is a libido booster.
brewens
(13,395 posts)recipe may be better though.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)I'm never getting arthritis.
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)struggle4progress
(118,039 posts)I still have part of a case of beer I bought 18 months ago
Quantess
(27,630 posts)Beer has a shelf life.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)that might be a problem.