Even moderate drinking is harmful to health: scientists rendered the final verdict
Health / / December 19, 2019
The more you drink alcoholic beverages - the higher the risk of hypertension and stroke. With this statement is not disputed ever. But nevertheless it considered that there is some "safe" dose of alcohol. Which, according to someAlcohol consumption and stroke: benefits and risks, Can even prevent ischemic stroke.
However, this data is denied. The results of the recently concluded a major study, publishedConventional and genetic evidence on alcohol and vascular disease aetiology: a prospective study of 500,000 men and women in China in the journal The Lancet, clearly show: safe amounts of alcohol does not exist.
How much can you drink without harm to health
The answer is categorical: any. Scientists analyzed the health data of about 500 thousand people - Chinese adults of both sexes. And we discovered a unique connection between consumption of alcoholic beverages and vascular disorders.
People who drink moderately, the risk of stroke increased by 10-15% compared with those who did not drink alcohol.
Moderately - hence, no more than one serving (about 10-20 ml of pure alcohol) per day. In translationFact Sheets - Alcohol Use and Your Health on popular drinks, this means approximately 350 ml beer, 150 ml wine or 40-50 ml of brandy, whiskey, vodka or other hard liquors.
If you eat more, your personal risk of developing stroke It increases to 35%.
Who threatens to alcohol
EstimatedHarmful use of alcohol kills more than three million people each year, most of them men The World Health Organization, alcohol use 2.3 billion people. The average daily dose of alcohol in terms of a human is 33 ml - about twice the "moderate" value. Among these people there as the Europeans and the Americans or the Chinese.
The study was focused on the Chinese people, but only for one reason. Among the representatives of the Asian race can objectively select the control group - made up of people who do not drink alcohol. Some Chinese people there is a genetic intolerance to alcohol. Among other races as people with a similar feature there.
It is sometimes used comparisons with the majority of control, never drinking team, has allowed scientists to establish unequivocally any harm, even the smallest doses of alcohol.
You can certainly say, 'Where are the Chinese - and where we are... ". But it would be a mistake. Study Group, which includes scientists from Oxford University and Peking, and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, confidently declares: given the conclusions are the same for all the people in world.
Summary: drinking harmful. And it's the final verdict.
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