The study found that four cups of coffee a day reduced the risk of gout by 75%

With the improvement of people's living standards, gout has become a disease with a high incidence in today's society. This disease is known as "imperial disease" or "wealth disease". There are more men than women, and it is related to indulgence in alcohol and food.

According to the Daily Mail, drinking four cups of coffee a day can halve a woman's risk of gout.

The researchers found that people who drank four or more cups of coffee a day had a 57% lower risk of gout than those who did not drink coffee. Two to four cups of coffee can reduce the rate of gout by 22%. If you have one cup a day, you can only reduce it by 3%.

The latest evidence suggests that people with gout are younger today, in part because of increased obesity rates. Some people seem to be genetically more likely to develop the disease, but diet and excessive drinking are still important causes. Gout occurs when uric acid, the metabolite of the human body, accumulates too much. During the attack of gout, the big toe is swollen and sore, and when it is severe, a piece of paper on the big toe will feel unbearable pain. Gout attacks can last up to a week.

The latest findings, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, are the results of a long-term study of 90,000 female nurses in the United States.

Researchers from Boston University and Harvard Medical School followed the nurses for 26 years, closely monitoring their health and eating habits. During this period, about 900 nurses developed gout. The researchers analyzed their coffee intake and found that people who drank a lot of coffee for a long time had the lowest risk of gout. Researchers don't know why coffee has such a positive effect, but one theory is that coffee lowers levels of insulin in the blood. It is well known that high levels of insulin are associated with high uric acid.

The therapeutic effect of coffee does not seem to be due to caffeine, because decaffeinated coffee can also reduce the risk of gout to a similar level.

"long-term coffee drinking is associated with a lower risk of gout in women," the researchers said. " The above findings support two? A similar study published in seven years shows that coffee seems to protect men and women from gout. Some studies even say that gout is an early symptom of heart disease. The researchers found that middle-aged men with gout had higher blood pressure, higher cholesterol levels and diabetes.