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Sixty seconds on . . . drinking and diabetes
BMJ 2017; 358 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j3672 (Published 02 August 2017) Cite this as: BMJ 2017;358:j3672
- Susan Mayor
- London
A tipple a day keeps diabetes away?
That’s what the research says. A Danish study hit the headlines this week, showing that people who drink alcohol three to four days a week had around a 30% lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than teetotallers.1 The lowest risks of diabetes were in men who consumed 14 alcoholic drinks and women who knocked back nine drinks a week.
Non-causal, surely?
Well, the …
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