Beer - a causative agent of gut

After a series of questions about the influence of alcohol for gout , the last American scientists have demonstrated this relationship is real. In particular, beer is the most dangerous threat, because it contains a special ingredient than any alcoholic beverages do.

For years, people believed that alcohol has the ability to stimulate the body to produce a substance called uric acid. The accumulation of this substance in the joints leads to gout, also known as gout, chronic destruction of the joints, causing gout arthritis attacks the expression levels with increasing redness and soreness.

During follow-up of about 47,000 male health professionals in 12 years, a group of experts from the Massachusetts General Hospital (USA) recorded 730 people develop gout. In particular, those who drank 2 beers per day morbidity rate 2.5 times higher than non-drinkers. These cases the level of alcohol in similar high-risk by 1.6 times. However, it seems that there is no danger that threatens those who drink alcohol in moderation or less.

Dr. Hyon Choi, who led the study, the difference in potential between gout alcoholic beverages may be due to the presence of a non-alcoholic substance that. All doubt was poured into compounds called purines, found a large quantity of beer, but very little of the wine and other drinks. It can impact on uric acid in the blood and increase the effects of alcohol on the body.

In medicine, gout disease, also known as the rich. The number of patients is increasing in developed countries over the past 30 years. The treatment is no obstacle, but if the occurrence of complications, the disease is difficult to avoid kidney damage, which can cause kidney stones.