New Alcohol Study Asserts Moderate Drinking Risks

Scientists at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital reported in the BMJ that a study of 136,000 men and women that was conducted over a 30-year period revealed that those who drank more had a higher risk of alcohol caused cancers or alcohol related cancers. Cao does suggest that those who drink should limit their alcohol consumption to below the recommended limit. After all, there’s quite a wide range of cancers to be anxious about according to the report, including breast, mouth, throat, liver, and bowel cancer.

The study found that men who smoked and had two standard drinks every day experienced an increase in their chances of having any cancer. Those studies involved 47,881 men and 88,084 women and lasted 30 years. Too much alcohol is risky and can lead to various health risks including, but not limited to, cancer.

“We know that the public are still largely unaware of the links between alcohol and cancer, particularly the increased risk of developing breast cancer”.

The research team also discovered that people who refrain from alcohol and the heavy drinkers, are less likely to undergo regular examinations with their doctors than those who are moderate alcohol drinkers. The goal was to assess the influence of drinking patterns on the overall risk of cancer. The health of those women and men were constantly analysed during the studies. Nevertheless, up to now, the study had purposely aimed at people with high daily alcohol consumption. However, researchers have shifted gear to investigate more closely the overall cancer risks, and include the consumption of alcohol even in small or reasonable amounts in their studies.

Other pieces of information related to patients’ condition have been taken into consideration for the current study, such as, their age, their social status, their family history and their body mass index.

He advises people who have a history of cancer in their family to drink even less than it is advice or to stop drinking altogether, in order to decrease the risk of those types of cancer.

The results of the study were published online in the British Medical Journal.