Thread: Women Beer Drinkers Have Higher Risk Of Developing Psoriasis

I read this interesting article from BBC News - Women beer drinkers "increase psoriasis risk". According to the article, recent study showed that women who drank 5 beers a week doubled their risk of developing Psoriasis compared to women who did not drink.

Here are some quotes from the article:

The Boston study, in Archives of Dermatology, looked at more than 82,000 female nurses aged 27 to 44 and their drinking habits from 1991 until 2005.

Non-alcoholic beer, wine and spirits were not found to increase the risk.

In the study, researchers said that woman who drank more than two alcoholic drinks a week increased their risk of psoriasis by two-thirds compared with non-drinkers.

For women who drank five glasses of beer per week their risk of developing psoriasis was 1.8 times higher again.

When stricter criteria were used to confirm psoriasis cases, their risk was increased 2.3 times.

Yet women who drank any amount of low- or non-alcoholic beer, white wine, red wine or spirits per week were not found to be at increased risk.

It seems that non-light beers was the only alcoholic beverage that increased the risk of psoriasis. The study also suggests that the gluten-containing barley, used in the fermentation of beer, may cause the increased psoriasis risk.

I'm so glad I'm a light beer drinker.. I only drink occassionally though. Psoriasis is not a common skin disease in my country but it's best to try to avoid it anyway.

Wines are so much better, especially red wine. I tried beer before but I didn't like it. Light beers have low calories compared to wine but wine has more health benefit.

This is bad.. I don't drink but most of my friends do.. I will email this post to them. Thanks for the post mikaela.

I'm a wine drinker myself but I do drink light beer once in a while. The danger is only to non-light beer drinkers, so if you are one, switch to light beers or wine instead, just to be safe.