Drinking beer inside will lead to gout, than adherence to spirits. This conclusion was made by American researchers.

They also argue that moderate drinking does not increase the risk of gout. The results of the study, published in the medical journal Lancet, have become a sad news for beer lovers. Objects of 12-year observations were more than 45 thousand men between the ages of 40 to 75 years. More than 700 people became ill with gout for the reporting period. The study was conducted in one of the leading hospitals in the state of Massachusetts. The notion that gout is mainly elderly aristocrats, sipping a seasoned port, departs into the realm of tradition.

According to medical experts, those people who prefer strong liquor are less prone to gout, and those who prefer wine in moderate amounts are almost out of danger. The introduction of alcohol into the body leads to the formation of uric acid in the blood, and that, getting into the joints, causes in them an inflammatory reaction, from which they swell and begin to ache. But in beer there are other substances that contribute to the development of joint disease. Men who drink a liter of beer a day, get sick by gout 2.5 times more often than those who abstain from this drink in general. Strong alcohol in the volume of two doses per day increases the risk by 1.6 times. A couple of glasses of wine will not affect the joints. In the past 30 years, the number of cases of gout has increased worldwide. This disease is easily curable, but the complications caused to it adversely affect the kidneys of medicus. En.