Drinking Alcohol May Protect Against Rheumatoid Arthritis

(USA Today) UPDATED 2010-07-30
New research has added to existing evidence that drinking alcohol may help protect people from developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In the study, people who did not drink at all had four times the risk of having RA than those who drank the most. Researchers also found that alcohol protected people who already had RA from developing the most debilitating type of the disease. But the scientists caution that this finding does not mean they are advocating using alcohol to prevent or treat RA.  Read full story >
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