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FarCenter

(19,429 posts)
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 11:12 PM Jul 2012

Three Drinks Weekly May Halve Arthritis Risk, Study Says

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

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Three Drinks Weekly May Halve Arthritis Risk, Study Says (Original Post) FarCenter Jul 2012 OP
My chances of getting rheumatoid arthritis must be in the negative numbers, then. Ikonoklast Jul 2012 #1
Hear, hear! Lugnut Jul 2012 #9
sheeit. i keep forgetting to drink. all these wonderful things it does for us seabeyond Jul 2012 #2
non-scientific & based purely on personal experience - i think the type of liquor may play a role. marasinghe Jul 2012 #3
Granny had it right all along. Her famous rheumatiz medicine! The Baldwin sisters brewens Jul 2012 #4
How about eight drinks nightly? MrSlayer Jul 2012 #5
Arthritis of the Liver thelordofhell Jul 2012 #6
Nishe to hear. hic nt longship Jul 2012 #7
I've been planning to try moderate alcohol consumption but keep forgetting struggle4progress Jul 2012 #8
Drink up soon! Quantess Jul 2012 #10
Weekly...humm Historic NY Jul 2012 #11
 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
2. sheeit. i keep forgetting to drink. all these wonderful things it does for us
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 11:18 PM
Jul 2012

i only remember the booze when family comes over.

marasinghe

(1,253 posts)
3. non-scientific & based purely on personal experience - i think the type of liquor may play a role.
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 11:28 PM
Jul 2012

when i drink gin, my joints ache.
on the plus side it is a libido booster.

brewens

(13,395 posts)
4. Granny had it right all along. Her famous rheumatiz medicine! The Baldwin sisters
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 11:31 PM
Jul 2012

recipe may be better though.

struggle4progress

(118,039 posts)
8. I've been planning to try moderate alcohol consumption but keep forgetting
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 12:12 AM
Jul 2012


I still have part of a case of beer I bought 18 months ago
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