People nowadays are
looking for ways to prevent developing any health problems, including
rheumatoid arthritis, medical expert says. Rheumatoid Arthritis is considered a
chronic disease because it may cause long-term joint damage, resulting in
chronic pain, loss of function and disability. It has prompted several people
to undergo surgery such as hip replacement by DePuy Orthopedics, a unit of
Johnson & Johnson, against which several patients complained about the role of metallosis in DePuy ASR hipimplants.
A recent study shows
that a person who moderately drinks beer, wine or liquor may lessen the risk of
developing rheumatoid arthritis which usually leads to an inflamed joint
disorder that usually develops between the ages 40 and above.
Furthermore, the results show that women who regularly
consume more than three alcoholic drinks a week for at least 10 years have
about half the risk of the developing rheumatoid arthritis compared with
non-drinkers, the Science Daily website says.
Researchers have gathered information from two Swedish
national health registers on 34,141 women born between 1914 and 1948. They
gathered information on alcohol consumption in 1987 and 1997, and then tracked
the women's health for seven years, from 2003 to 2009.
During the follow-up period, the researchers documented 197
cases of rheumatoid arthritis. After controlling for a variety of factors, they
found that women who reported drinking more than three glasses or beer, wine or
liquor per week (about a half ounce of ethanol each) had a 52 percent lower
risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis than abstainers. The kind of drink
consumed made no difference in the risk, the New York times says.
The authors, writing last week in the British Medical
Journal, acknowledged that they had no information on family history of
rheumatoid arthritis and that self-reports of alcohol consumption may not
always be accurate.
Daniela Di Giuseppe, the lead author, says that a doctoral
student at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, cautioned against drawing
overly broad conclusions from the study.
''We don't know what
happens with higher doses of alcohol,'' she says. ''And this is just one study
showing what happened in Swedish women. So I don't want to give advice about
alcohol consumption.'' To know more about the news, check the DePuy Hip Recall Center.
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URL REFERENCES:
query.nytimes.com/gst/
arthritis.org
sciencedaily.com
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