Wine flavonoids protect against dementia
Published December 30th, 2006
People who drink wine occasionally may have a lower risk of developing dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, research suggests.
Scientists found people who drank wine weekly or monthly were more than two times less likely to develop dementia.
The lead researcher was Dr Thomas Truelsen, of the Institute of Preventive Medicine at Kommunehospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark.
He said: “These results don’t mean that people should start drinking wine or drink more wine than they usually do.
“But they are exciting because they could mean that substances in wine reduce the occurrence of dementia.
“If that’s the case, we could potentially develop treatments or prevention methods based on these substances.”
Dr Truelsen’s team believe the key to beneficial effect are a group of compounds called flavonoids which are found in wine, particularly red wine.
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