Post by SpyderLady on Apr 24, 2007 19:13:00 GMT -6
Moderate alcohol intake may reduce cognitive decline in older women
April 15th, 2007
From Memory Key.com
Two recent large-scale epidemiological studies have come out recently with similar findings. Data from the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study (involving 4,461 women aged 65 to 79 years) has revealed that women who reported having one or more alcohol drinks daily had a 40% lower risk of significant declines in cognitive function over time, compared to women who reported no alcohol intake. It is possible that moderate alcohol intake may reduce the risk for narrowed vessels in the brain. In addition, alcohol may decrease the formation of plaque that is associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
Data from the Nurses’ Health Study, begun in 1976 and involving 12,480 women, now aged between 70 and 81 years old, has found that women who had the equivalent of one drink a day had a 23% lower risk of becoming mentally impaired during a two-year period, compared with non-drinkers. It made no significant difference whether they drank beer or wine.
The first study was reported in the February 1 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology.
cognitive: Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. Of or pertaining to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning, as contrasted with emotional and volitional processes.
April 15th, 2007
From Memory Key.com
Two recent large-scale epidemiological studies have come out recently with similar findings. Data from the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study (involving 4,461 women aged 65 to 79 years) has revealed that women who reported having one or more alcohol drinks daily had a 40% lower risk of significant declines in cognitive function over time, compared to women who reported no alcohol intake. It is possible that moderate alcohol intake may reduce the risk for narrowed vessels in the brain. In addition, alcohol may decrease the formation of plaque that is associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
Data from the Nurses’ Health Study, begun in 1976 and involving 12,480 women, now aged between 70 and 81 years old, has found that women who had the equivalent of one drink a day had a 23% lower risk of becoming mentally impaired during a two-year period, compared with non-drinkers. It made no significant difference whether they drank beer or wine.
The first study was reported in the February 1 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology.
cognitive: Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. Of or pertaining to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning, as contrasted with emotional and volitional processes.
Wine is better tho. What does it matter what she drinks. More beer fer you! But stay outta her wine!! lol