Gastrointestinal cancer at doorstep with frequent alcohol consumption, finds JAMA study
The International Agency for Research on Cancer has categorised alcohol as a group 1 carcinogen, particularly with respect to Gastrointestinal cancers. This brings us to the issue of warning individuals against consuming modest quantities of alcohol on a daily basis, in addition to the overall quantity of alcohol consumed.
Korean researchers proposed a study to establish the link between the frequency of drinking and the amount of alcohol drank each occasion to the development of GI malignancies. They found out that frequent drinking was the important risk factor among the other major factors for incident GI cancers and published this online in the JAMA open network for oncology on August 2021.
11,737,467 people who did not have cancer from the Korean Nationwide Health Insurance System database were screened as part of a national health screening programme. Participants were tracked for a year following the screening until they were diagnosed with GI cancer, died, or passed away as on December 31, 2017.
The groups included in the study were based on weekly alcohol consumption (non-drinker [0 g/week], mild drinker [0-104 g/week], moderate drinker [105-209 g/week], and heavy drinker [210 g/week]), drinking frequency, and amount per occasion.
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