Smoking ups ALS risk, alcohol lowers it
Aug 16, 2012
The risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis was lower among alcohol drinkers than among abstainers, and higher in smokers, U.S. and European researchers say.Andrew Waterhouse of the University of California, Davis, and other members of the International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research reviewed the paper and said the study, which it called well-done, involved almost 500 cases of ALS, or Lou Gehrig‘s disease.The reviewers said they were especially struck by the magnitude of the difference in ri