I'm sure your doctor will pooh-pooh all these research results on alcohol.
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=156662&CultureCode=en
Women who drink beer at most once or twice per week run a 30 per cent
lower risk of heart attack, compared with both heavy drinkers and women
who never drink beer. These are the findings of a Swedish study which
has followed 1,500 women over a period of almost 50 years.
In the study, researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of
Gothenburg, have followed a representative selection of the middle-aged
female population from 1968 to 2000 (when the women in the study were
between 70 and 92 years old).
Now, with the help of data from the study, the researchers have
attempted to chart the relationship between the intake of different
types of alcoholic beverages and the incidence of heart attacks, stroke,
diabetes and cancer.
Beer consumption
In the study in question, the 1,500 women were
asked about the frequency of their consumption of beer, wine or spirits
(from 'daily' to 'nothing in the past 10 years'), and about various
physical symptoms.
The results reveal that over the 32-year follow-up period, 185 women
had a heart attack, 162 suffered a stroke, 160 developed diabetes and
345 developed cancer.
Higer cancer risk
The study shows a statistically significant
connection between high consumption of spirits (defined as more frequent
than once or twice per month) and an almost 50 per cent higher risk of
dying of cancer, compared with those who drink less frequently.
Lower risk of heart attack
The study also reveals that women who
reported that they drank beer once or twice per week to once or twice
per month ran a 30 per cent lower risk of a heart attack than women who
drank beer several times per week/daily or never drank beer. Moderate
consumption of beer thus seems to protect women from heart attacks.
“Previous research also suggests that alcohol in moderate quantities
can have a certain protective effect, but there is still uncertainty as
to whether or not this really is the case. Our results have been checked
against other risk factors for cardiovascular disease, which
substantiates the findings. At the same time, we were unable to confirm
that moderate wine consumption has the same effect, so our results also
need to be confirmed through follow-up studies,” explains Dominique
Hange, researcher at Sahlgrenska Academy.
The article A 32-year longitudinal study of alcohol consumption in
Swedish women: Reduced risk of myocardial infarction but increased risk
of cancer was published online in Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health
Care in July 2015.
FACTS
The women study ("Kvinnostudien") in Gothenburg began in
the late 1960s, when around 1,500 middle-aged women representative of
the female population of Gothenburg were surveyed and were asked to
answer a series of questions regarding their health and any medical
conditions that they might have. The women have been followed
continuously since then, with regular follow-ups, from 1968-1969 right
up until the most recent survey which is currently underway.
http://sahlgrenska.gu.se/english/research/news-article/women-with-moderate-beer-consumption-run-lower-risk-of-heart-attack.cid1321456
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