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More bad health news on beer
Herald Scum
16apr04
A MASSIVE study has delivered bad news for beer drinkers after proving the long-held folklore tenet that alcohol consumption causes gout.
The first large study to assess the correlation between alcohol and gout, a survey of 47,000 American men found beer was more likely to be associated with gout than spirits, and moderate wine consumption was not linked to the disease.
Alcohol consumption causes an increased production of uric acid which, when deposited in joints, leads to gout.
Over the 12 year study, Dr Hyon Choi and colleagues found the risk of developing gout doubled for those who drank 30-50g of alcohol per day, and increased 25-fold for a daily alcohol consumption above 50g.
Dr Choi reported in the international medical journal The Lancet there was a 50 per cent higher risk of gout in those who drank 15-30g of alcohol a day, and a 30 per cent increased risk if 10-15g was consumed.
The team worked on the basis that a can of beer contained 128g of alcohol, a standard glass of wine contains 110g and spirits had 140g of alcohol per shot.
Across all levels of drinking, beer consumption showed the strongest association with gout, they said.
"Two or more beers per day increased the risk of gout 25-fold compared with no beer intake, whereas the same frequency of spirits intake increased the risk by 16 times compared with no spirits intake," Dr Choi said.
"Correspondingly, beer increased the risk of gout per serving per day more than twice as much as did spirits even though alcohol content per serving was less for beer than spirits."
The findings suggested non-alcoholic components of the different alcoholic beverages could play an important role in the incidence of gout, Dr Choi said.
"One candidate for this non-alcoholic component is the variation in purine contents among the individual alcoholic beverages," he added.
"Beer is the only alcoholic beverage acknowledged to have a large purine content."
Purine is a substance the body metabolises into uric acid which, if overproduced or improperly excreted through the urine, deposits as crystals in joints and tissues.
Known as gout, the deposited crystals cause redness, swelling and severe pain. Repeated attacks lead to the destruction of tissues and severe arthritic-like malformations.
Herald Scum
16apr04
A MASSIVE study has delivered bad news for beer drinkers after proving the long-held folklore tenet that alcohol consumption causes gout.
The first large study to assess the correlation between alcohol and gout, a survey of 47,000 American men found beer was more likely to be associated with gout than spirits, and moderate wine consumption was not linked to the disease.
Alcohol consumption causes an increased production of uric acid which, when deposited in joints, leads to gout.
Over the 12 year study, Dr Hyon Choi and colleagues found the risk of developing gout doubled for those who drank 30-50g of alcohol per day, and increased 25-fold for a daily alcohol consumption above 50g.
Dr Choi reported in the international medical journal The Lancet there was a 50 per cent higher risk of gout in those who drank 15-30g of alcohol a day, and a 30 per cent increased risk if 10-15g was consumed.
The team worked on the basis that a can of beer contained 128g of alcohol, a standard glass of wine contains 110g and spirits had 140g of alcohol per shot.
Across all levels of drinking, beer consumption showed the strongest association with gout, they said.
"Two or more beers per day increased the risk of gout 25-fold compared with no beer intake, whereas the same frequency of spirits intake increased the risk by 16 times compared with no spirits intake," Dr Choi said.
"Correspondingly, beer increased the risk of gout per serving per day more than twice as much as did spirits even though alcohol content per serving was less for beer than spirits."
The findings suggested non-alcoholic components of the different alcoholic beverages could play an important role in the incidence of gout, Dr Choi said.
"One candidate for this non-alcoholic component is the variation in purine contents among the individual alcoholic beverages," he added.
"Beer is the only alcoholic beverage acknowledged to have a large purine content."
Purine is a substance the body metabolises into uric acid which, if overproduced or improperly excreted through the urine, deposits as crystals in joints and tissues.
Known as gout, the deposited crystals cause redness, swelling and severe pain. Repeated attacks lead to the destruction of tissues and severe arthritic-like malformations.
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