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Thursday, 12 March 2009

New cancer report: better news

Following the scare report from the l'INCa put out in February, Hervé Lalou reports on his Chroniques Vineuses of a new study (canceralcool) that looked at 100,000 people in the Lorraine region of France over 25 years. It found that moderate wine drinking did not show evidence of a risk of increased mortality – not morality as I initially posted – but might be covered by a separate study in Alsace!

A dose modérée, (0,7 g d’alcool/kg poids chez l’homme): nous ne mettons pas en évidence d’augmentation significative du risque de mortalité par cancer; pour les hommes qui préfèrent le vin, nous observons une diminution significative du risque de mortalité par cancer des voies aérodigestives supérieures et du poumon.

Chez la femme, nous ne mettons pas en évidence d’augmentation significative du risque de mortalité par cancer – 0,3 g/kg de poids sans avoir pu mettre en évidence de relation avec la préférence vin.’

More details on Hervé’s site.


7 comments:

  1. So you might die of cancer, but you'll be a better person :-)) (You might want to check your spelling Jim :-))

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  2. "It found that moderate wine drinking did show evidence of a risk of increased morality."
    A Freudian slip?

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  3. Thanks Susan and Bob - pleased to see that some people are awake! Comes of trying to do too many thinks too fast.

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  4. Jim, is "thinks" another Freudian slip, or just a pun?

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  5. Bob - just another typo, although I could pretend it was a pun! Been drinking too much Sauvignon Blanc and not enough Chenin.

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  6. OK, rub it in Jim. Loire Sauvignon and Loire Chenin. Here in Maine, good versions of each can be tough to find. Whereas you can probably just walk out your door.

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  7. Not intentional Bob but all part of a moderate diet.

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