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Friday, October 29, 2004The researchers, from the University of Santiago de Compostela, compared the lifestyles of 132 patients with lung cancer to 187 patients without lung cancer who had minor surgery at the same hospital in Spain between 1999 and 2000. In both groups, nearly 90 percent of the subjects were men. Both groups drank similar amounts of wine, about 3.5 glasses a day, the researchers found. (U.S. health experts caution that moderate drinking for optimal health is defined in general as one drink a day for women and two for men.). The researchers found that each daily glass of red wine reduced the risk of lung cancer by 13 percent. Rose wine had no effect and white wine seemed to raise the risk, although the researchers said not many of the subjects drank white wine. Beer or spirits had no apparent effect on lung cancer development. It isn't a very well-designed study. Comparing a group of lung cancer patients with a group of people without lung cancer and just comparing their lifestyles doesn't even begin to approach preciseness. There could be many uncontrolled variables that are effecting the results, other than wine drinking. I wouldn't count on the bottle to counteract an post-prandial cigarette. posted by Sydney on 10/29/2004 08:16:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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