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Alcohol Increases Risk of Breast Problems
An investigation concluded that girls who drink large amounts of alcohol in his teens, every day or almost every day, five times more likely to develop non-cancerous breast in young adulthood (20 and 29 years) and cancer a later stage of life.
The ‘non-cancerous “refers to various non-malignant conditions such as fibroadenoma, a noncancerous tumor, the most common among women aged 30 years or less. The study co-author Catherine Berkey, a biostatistician at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, said he knows benign breast disease increase the risk of breast cancer.
The study results showed that the risk of benign breast disease with increased frequency of alcohol consumption had a 1.5 times higher risk by drinking one or two days a week, three times by drinking three to five days week, and a 5.5 higher risk by drinking six to seven days a week, when compared with those who never drank or drank less than once a week.
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What is Osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is a decrease in bone mass and mechanical strength resulting in susceptibility to fractures. It is the primary cause of bone fractures in women after menopause and the elderly in general.
Osteoporosis does not have a definite beginning and, until recently, the first visible sign of the disease used to be a fracture of the hip, wrist or vertebral body that causes pain or deformity.
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