Vitamin C may “Slash” Gout Risk in Men according to a New Study
Higher intakes of Vitamin C may reduce a man’s risk of gout, the most prevalent inflammatory arthritis in adult males, by up to 45 percent, according to a new study.
According to findings published in the new issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, for every 500 milligrams increase in vitamin C intake, a man’s risk of gout was cut by 17 percent. And for men with vitamin C intakes of at least 1,500 milligrams per day, the risk of gout was cut by 45 percent, said the findings of a prospective study with 46,994 men conducted by researchers from Boston University School of Medicine.
“The present study, to our knowledge, provides the first prospective evidence about the inverse association between vitamin C intake and the risk of gout,” “These prospective data indicate that vitamin C intake is strongly associated with a lower risk of grout,” wrote the researchers, they also concluded “Increasing the vitamin C intake may be beneficial in the prevention of gout.”
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