Alcohol linked to brain shrinkage

[cloudgazer]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3660433/

DALLAS, Dec. 5, 2003 - Light to moderate drinking may cause a loss of brain tissue in middle-aged people, a study found.The researchers also found that such alcohol consumption does not lower the risk of a stroke — contradicting findings from previous studies.

“I think this is an interesting study because people talk about the beneficial effects of alcohol intake on cardiovascular disease and they try to extend that to stroke,” said the study’s lead researcher, Dr. Jingzhong Ding, a research associate at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. “Some studies find beneficial effects, but ours didn’t.”

Heavy drinking is known to raise the risk of both brain atrophy and stroke, but findings on the effects of low to moderate drinking have varied.
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The new study appears in Friday’s issue of the American Heart Association journal Stroke.

It moves doctors a step closer to understanding what amounts of alcohol are harmful, said Dr. Edgar J. Kenton III, a professor of clinical neurology at the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.

Ding and his colleagues evaluated 1,909 patients, ages 55 and older, from North Carolina and Mississippi who were participants in a study on the buildup of plaque in the arteries. Researchers used information collected between 1987 and 1989 and followed up every three years until 1995.

Using magnetic resonance imaging, or MRIs, researchers measured the patients’ ventricular and sulcal areas — voids of the brain containing only cerebrospinal fluid. Increased ventricular and sulcal size indicates a reduction in brain tissue, or atrophy.

The findings showed that both voids grew larger the more people drank.

Ding said researchers cannot make a definitive cause-and-effect link between drinking and brain atrophy because the MRIs were done only once during the study and because they found only a small reduction in tissue.
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G'day Cloudgazer.

We had the 'Heart Foundation' in Australia promoting a glass of wine as being good for the heart. Which of course is a load of bullshit, as it is the grape that is beneficial for the heart, not the fermented grape.

Signs In Nature

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows that grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalising food.

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[chandrakavi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdeCl1ZDYwo


Some people are more peaceful when drunk

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Now that's a Dick.

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[angeress]

An excellent post and three cheers for the poster. Now all together Hip Hip Hooray, Hip Hip Hooray, Hip, HIp, Hooray.
This is a great argument and a real discussion, and this is why Alchohol is given to many Everyday People to stop them from having a great wonderful life, and laugh as much as you like, but I know I speak TRUTH.
Very funny to put pictures of Bush/Cheney/Whoever photoshopped with Booxe, but the brutal truth is that achohol is addictive and Pubdwellers end up reading The Sun after a few years because the brain cannot register the big words in a broadsheet.

[chandrakavi]

THE SUN headlines on 6 Year Old:


http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... 020940.ece

[angeress]

Terrible, TErrible, Terrible, Terrible, Terrible. I blame the parents and listen to this and listen good. How many wife batterers beat up their wives whilst under the influence of alchohol, and I think that Alchohol is a cowardly way to muffle out your personal troubles. A good shake up is what is needed.