"Lao Zhang, you don't have a memory? Lao Hu downstairs died of drinking. Aren't you afraid?"
52-year-old Lao Zhang has no special hobbies on weekdays. The only thing is that he likes to have a drink every day at supper.
Old Zhang couldn't help but take out a bottle of wine for dinner. When his wife saw the situation, she hurriedly stopped him. Lao Hu, who lived in the same community and the same floor last month, was diagnosed with liver cancer because of long-term drinking, and it was in the late stage. When he was sick, he died a few days later.
Lao Zhang was scolded by his wife several times because of this, because Lao Zhang usually has the habit of drinking. Although he doesn’t drink much, as long as it is related to alcohol, it won’t work!
In fact, there are many people who love this sip in daily life. Sometimes, relatives and friends gather, socialize, and socialize, everyone cannot do without wine. Although the wine culture in our country is strong, drinking regularly is indeed not a good thing.
It is understood that in 2020 alone, 1.78 million people died of alcohol consumption worldwide, and most of them were men aged 15-49. Problems with death include cancer, gastrointestinal diseases, cirrhosis, , etc.
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Not long ago, a research team led by Professor A. Topiwala of the Big Data Institute of Oxford University in the United Kingdom published a large-scale research result in the journal " Nature ". The topic of this study is the effect of alcohol on human telomeres.
Telomere is a special structure on the end of a cell chromosome. It is responsible for protecting chromosomes, and the length of telomeres is closely related to our health level and longevity. The study led by A. Topiwala's team is about whether alcohol affects the telomeres of human cells chromosomes. If the length is shortened, it means that the aging rate of human cells will accelerate and eventually aging will age ahead of schedule.
Professor Topiwala's team selected and analyzed data on alcohol consumption and telomeres length of 245,354 participants. They found that higher alcohol intake in participants was significantly associated with shorter telomeres lengths, which means that long-term drinking does affect the length of telomeres in the human body, which ultimately leads to premature aging, thereby shortening the lifespan of a person.
The study also pointed out that although genetic gene is inherently related to the length of human telomeres, human factors in the later stage have a greater impact on telomeres, especially drinking. In addition, some other bad living habits, such as smoking, staying up late, high-risk diets, etc., may cause telomeres to shorten human cells.
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On August 19, 2022, the international authoritative medical journal "The Lancet" also published a research paper entitled "The global burden of cancer attribute to risk factors, 2010-19: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019".
The study pointed out that almost half of the world's cancer deaths are caused by known risk factors such as smoking, alcohol consumption and obesity, and smoking and drinking are still the main risk factors for cancer worldwide.
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Another published in "The Lancet" is a research paper titled: Population-level risks of alcohol consumption by amount, geography, age, sex, and year: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020 highlights the harm of drinking.
Often people say: "A small drink and a big drink harms the body", but this research and argument published in "The Lancet" specifically pointed out that drinking is very harmful to the body, and even a drop cannot do it.
The study collected data on drinking alcohol in men and women aged 15-95 in 204 countries and 21 regions over the 30 years from 1990 to 2020. The research results found that long-term alcohol consumption is positively correlated with cardiovascular diseases, cancer, metabolic diseases, etc. The relationship between
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At the end of this study, a big boss was also revealed, that is, the relationship between drinking and life span, that is, "DALYs", which is the year of life of disability adjustment, which refers to the total healthy life span lost from onset to death.Long-term drinking will directly affect the DALYs value, in other words, drinking will shorten your lifespan.
Do you still want to continue drinking after reading it?
Reference:
[1]https://m.toutiao.com/is/M7V54hu/
[2]https://www.medsci.cn/article/show_article.do?id=b185e364337f
[3]https://www.medsci.cn/article/show_article.do?id=6330e333167b
