Posted on 11/12/2002 10:20:34 AM PST by HAL9000
The red wine reduced the risks of insanity, the beer increases these risks
Tuesday November 12, 2002 - 16h39 GMT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (AFP) - To regularly drink red wine reduced of more than half the risks of insanity while the beer has the opposite effect, doubling the probabilities of being touched in particular by the disease of Alzheimer, according to a study carried out in Denmark and published Tuesday in the United States.
"These results are interesting because they could mean that certain substances of the wine reduce the supervening of the insanity", the author of the study thought, Dr. Thomas Truelsen, by considering "the development of treatments or methods of prevention based on these substances".
"That does not want to say that people must start to drinking wine or drinking some more", nevertheless Dr. Truelsen informed, whose study is published in the Neurology review.
The researchers under the direction of Dr. Truelsen, of the Institute of preventive medicine in Kommunehospitalet of Copenhagen, put forth the assumption that the flavonoïdes, a natural antioxydant present in the red wine, could be the source of this beneficial effect on the risks of insanity.
On the other hand, the Danish researchers noted that the occasional beer consumption was associated at the increased risk to be touched by the insanity. Among the participants in the study, those which consumed beer each month presented twice more risks to be touched than those which drank any never or very seldom.
For this study, the doctors recorded the drink practices of 1.709 inhabitants of Copenhagen in the Seventies. In the Nineties, they controlled these people of more than 65 years to obtain statistics on the frequency of the insanity affecting this group. In twenty years, 83 participants were struck of insanity.
One of the limits of the study is the absence of taking into account of the diet of the participants, underlined the neurologist John Brust of Harlem Hospital Center in New York, in a leading article published in the same review, while being appropriate that "it is a study showing that there is something of specifically beneficial in the wine".
Other research "suggests that the wine drinkers have food practices better than the beer drinkers and strong alcohols", pointed out Dr. Brust. "Certain results also show that the vitamin E can reduce the risks to develop the disease of Alzheimer. These factors were not taken into account in the study ", it added.
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