Eight or more drinks per week linked to brain lesions

Of those who never drank, 40% had vascular brain lesions. Of the moderate drinkers, 45% had vascular brain lesions. Of the heavy drinkers, 44% had vascular brain lesions. Of the former heavy drinkers, 50% had vascular brain lesions.<p>So, I read this as &quot;If you&#x27;re a heavy drinker, it&#x27;s better than being moderate or ever stopping&quot;<p>Statistics are fun.

If I had brain lesions, I&#x27;d probably take up heavy drinking, too.

This headline is way more sure of itself than the actual data.

Brain legions seem to be caused by trauma to the head, along with other things, so this doesn&#x27;t seem that surprising? Both &quot;most risk averse people drink less&quot; and &quot;most drinkers engage in more risky behavior&quot; are generally accepted ideas.

&quot;No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health&quot; [0]. Always interesting to see the responses of people to this scientific fact.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.who.int&#x2F;europe&#x2F;news&#x2F;item&#x2F;04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-safe-for-our-health" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.who.int&#x2F;europe&#x2F;news&#x2F;item&#x2F;04-01-2023-no-level-of-...</a>

&gt; Of those who never drank, 40% had vascular brain lesions. Of the moderate drinkers, 45% had vascular brain lesions. Of the heavy drinkers, 44% had vascular brain lesions. Of the former heavy drinkers, 50% had vascular brain lesions.<p>I mean when you put it that way it doesn&#x27;t seem so bad.

Engage defensive skepticism mode!

It&#x27;s frustrating that the definition of &quot;drinks&quot; varies and even when defined is not easy to adjust for various types of alcohol. So much easier to measure by units of alcohol. Just multiply ml of drink by percentage of alcohol and divide by 1000.

8 total or all in one sitting?

I like how “not drinking at all” is linked to brain lesions at nearly the same rate

&gt; Heavy drinkers who have eight or more alcoholic drinks per week<p>So if you have about one drink a day you are doomed (and a &quot;heavy&quot; drinker)? Experience tells that this is simply not the case, and is crap promulgated by mad the mad teetotal faction.