Alcohol is the root of 62 diseases and a partial cause of dozens more | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Dozens of diseases are attributable to alcohol consumption—but many can be slowed or reversed by cutting down on or quitting drinking, according to a new review co-authored by researchers at Harvard Chan School.
  • Malyca@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    While all of this is true and concerning, now is not the time to raw dog reality.

  • Avicenna@programming.devEnglish
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    2 months ago

    They also found that drinking raises the risk of:

    …sexually transmitted infections

    This statement really made we wonder if they thought about actual causality at all.

    • teohhanhui@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      From a summary:

      Drinking damages the liver and may make the body more vulnerable to infectious diseases, including sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis.

      Or from the review itself:

      Infectious disease

      The causal impact of alcohol on the four broad categories of infectious disease from the last Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health [1] has been confirmed in recent reviews [15, 16]. The main biological mechanism involves alcohol-induced liver dysfunction, which disrupts both non-specific innate and adaptive immune responses through acute and chronic alcohol consumption [80-84]. Lowered immune responses increase susceptibility to communicable diseases. More specific biological pathways are described in the references listed in Table 1.