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[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 24 points 2 weeks ago

They also found that drinking raises the risk of:

...sexually transmitted infections

This statement really made we wonder if they thought about actual causality at all.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Stop. Fucking. Your. Beer. Bottles.

[-] teohhanhui@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

From a summary:

Drinking damages the liver and may make the body more vulnerable to infectious diseases, including sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis.

Or from the review itself:

Infectious disease

The causal impact of alcohol on the four broad categories of infectious disease from the last Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health [1] has been confirmed in recent reviews [15, 16]. The main biological mechanism involves alcohol-induced liver dysfunction, which disrupts both non-specific innate and adaptive immune responses through acute and chronic alcohol consumption [80-84]. Lowered immune responses increase susceptibility to communicable diseases. More specific biological pathways are described in the references listed in Table 1.

[-] liuther9@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Didn't know liver and immune system are that connected

Good point, highly likely the PhD students who authored this review were never taught about causation and correlation.

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