Consuming at least seven drinks of alcohol per week in your adolescence may increase the risk of high grade prostate cancer later, a new study has found.<\/p>\n
The study found that heavy alcohol intake at ages 15-19 was not associated with overall prostate cancer. However, consumption of at least seven drinks per week during this age increased 3.2 times the odds of high-grade prostate cancer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe prostate is an organ that grows rapidly during puberty, so it\u2019s potentially more susceptible to carcinogenic exposure during the adolescent years,\u201d said co-author Emma Allott, assistant professor at the University of North Carolinap.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor this reason, we wanted to investigate if heavy alcohol consumption in early life was associated with the aggressiveness of prostate cancer later,\u201d Allott added.<\/p>\n
For the study published in the Cancer Prevention Research, the research team evaluated data from 650 men undergoing a prostate biopsy between January 2007 and January 2018.<\/p>\n
These veterans had no prior history of prostate cancer, and their ages ranged from 49 to 89 years old. The population was racially diverse — 54 per cent of patients were non-white.<\/p>\n
Men completed questionnaires which assessed the average number of alcoholic drinks consumed weekly during each decade of life to determine age-specific and cumulative lifetime alcohol intake.<\/p>\n
Those who consumed at least seven alcoholic drinks per week at ages 20-29, 30-39, and 40-49, resulted in 3.14, 3.09, and 3.64 times the odds of high-grade prostate cancer, respectively, when compared with non-drinkers.<\/p>\n
However, the current alcohol consumption was not significantly associated with high-grade prostate cancer, the researchers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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