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[–] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Stop. Fucking. Your. Beer. Bottles.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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