Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston examined data from 82,869 women in the Nurses Health Study II who, in 1991, were between the ages of 27 and 44, for the amount and types of alcohol that they drank and whether or not they had been diagnosed with psoriasis.
They found that 1,150 had developed psoriasis, and further analysed 1,069 of these. They discovered that the risk of developing the condition was 72% greater among women who had 2.3 drinks per week than among those who did not drink alcohol at all. However, the risk of psoriasis was 2.3 times higher for women who drank five or more beers per week than for those who drank lager, wine or spirits.
This suggests that non-alcoholic components of beer, which are not found in wine or liquor, may play an important role in new-onset psoriasis – one of which may be barley, the starch source used in making beer. Barley, or course, contains gluten and there is already a know connection between gluten in tolerance and psoriasis. See this report.
Qureshi, A. Archives of Dermatology, published online Aug. 16, 2010.
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