According To A Study, Women Who Drink Coffee Have The Potential To Reduce The Risk Of Gout

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JAKARTA – Uric acid often rises when you eat foods and drinks that are high in purines. Pain due to arthritis develops when the uric acid in the blood is abnormal.

Pain in the joints is caused by the formation of crystals by uric acid in the joints. Often felt in the feet and big toe. When it comes to it, there are several ways to deal with it. Like taking medication with a prescription from a doctor or avoiding abstinence foods to consume. Another way without taking medication, was found in a study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

The study, conducted in 2010 by Hyon K. Choi and Gary Curhan, showed that women who consumed coffee for long periods of time were associated with a reduced risk of developing gout.

For 26 years, researchers obtained 896 data on gout cases. These data show that gout is mostly experienced by women at the age of getting older to more than 70 years. On the other hand, researchers found that coffee consumption was beneficial in reducing serum uric acid concentrations and influencing insulin resistance. Potentially caffeine acts like allopurinol, a uric acid-lowering drug.

Long-term coffee intake, according to the study mentioned above, is associated with lower insulin concentrations, increased insulin sensitivity, and reduced renal urate excretion. This caffeine benefit plays a significant role because female hormones in serum uric acid concentrations affect uric acid metabolism.

Women who consumed 1 to 3 cups of coffee per day lowered their risk of gout by 22 percent compared to those who didn't drink coffee. Meanwhile, if you consume more than 4 cups of coffee per day there is a 57 percent reduction in the risk of developing gout.

However, on the other hand, drinking coffee needs to be limited because it can invite the risk of other health problems. Although useful, do a healthy way of drinking coffee. Such as avoiding drinking coffee before bedtime, drinking coffee with sugar, limiting drinking coffee to a maximum of 4 cups a day, and minimizing using creamer. To sip the pleasure of coffee, choose the best coffee beans from the archipelago, both robusta and arabica.

Coffee, in addition to potentially lowering the risk of gout in women, is also associated with cardiovascular. A 2014 review, reported by Medical News Today, found that drinking 3-5 cups of coffee per day had the lowest risk of cardiovascular disease.