Two Scandinavian studies arrive to the same conclusion: to consume the alcohol moderately could decrease the risk to suffer from rheumatoid arthritis and to smoke would have the opposite effect.
Some Swedish researchers analyzed the data of the two clinical tests in Sweden and led to Denmark. To the total, 1 648 people affected by rheumatoid arthritis and 1 404 topics that did not stand some answered a questionnaire on their habits of life and provided a sample of blood.
According to the results, the topics that consumed the equivalent of five glasses of wine and more per week ran from 40% to 50% less risk to be reached of rheumatoid arthritis compared to the topics that the less drank alcohol.
This protective effect was more pronounced among the smokers, the tobacco addiction being a factor of risk of the illness. Indeed, a tie between the tobacco and rheumatoid arthritis, at those that consumed little or not of alcohol, has been observed in the two studies.
To stop smoking is the best means to decrease the risk to suffer from this illness, estimate the authors of the survey.
If they consider that the moderate drinkers should not reduce their consumption of alcohol, the researchers recall that an excessive consumption has ominous effects on health.
The rheumatoid arthritis can appear at any age, but the first symptoms occur in general between 40 years and 60 years.
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