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A new study has found that people over age 60 who drink alcohol regularly are at an increased risk of early death, particularly from cancer or issues related to the heart and blood vessels.
This is the findings of a new, large study that was published by ‘JAMA’. That’s a change from decades of public health messaging suggesting that moderate alcohol intake (one or two drinks per day) wasn’t dangerous.
Recently, experts have uncovered flaws in how researchers came to those earlier conclusions. In this latest study, researchers in Spain analysed health data for more than 135,000 people, all of whom were at least 60 years old, lived in the United Kingdom, and provided their health information to the UK Biobank database, reported the ‘ Webmd’.
The average age of people at the start of the analysis period was 64. The researchers compared 12 years of health outcomes for occasional drinkers to those who averaged drinking at least some alcohol on a daily basis.
The greatest health risks were seen between occasional drinkers and those whom the researchers labelled ‘high risk’.
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