United States: A new study which shows that alcohol-related deaths in the United States have nearly doubled over the past 20 years, and more women are actually becoming victims.
Yiota Kitsantas, the lead researcher from Florida Atlantic University, says the study found important differences between men and women in these death rates.
As reported by the HealthDay, “Although men had higher general mortality rates, the proportion change was higher for women, which could be suggestive of shift in social expectations and drinking culture wherein alcohol industry has shifted its marketing focus a way more onto women.”
As part of the study, she and her colleagues collected government data that ranges from 1999 through to 2020.
Alcohol related deaths rose significantly in that period to 10.7 to 21.6 per 100,000 among the population.
Even in the crude tally, alcohol deaths increased from 19,356 to 48,870 independents. There were increases in overall participation numbers across all age ranges, but proportions soared among those aged between 25 and 34 years.
They added that while a recent research published in the American Journal of Medicine suggests favorable trends in mortality and morbidity, it also underlines several areas which can be hurdles to creating healthier Canadians and which could translate into health issues that may need specific action.
This situation aggravates these complications with obesity, diabetes, and liver damage, increasing death rates related to alcohol, they said.
One of the study authors was quoted to have said that physicians and other providers know that binge drinking is a leading behavioral cause of premature mortality, cardiovascular disease, and atherosclerotic vascular disease.
A professor at FAU College of Medicine, he also said that screening for alcohol use in primary care settings is absolutely necessary.
“Excessive alcohol consumption is a major causative factor of premature mortality and disability on an international and national level, as well,” he said in a meeting news release. “The first impact of alcohol is the damage to the liver, and in the United States, newly developing obesity and diabetes lead to early liver damage.”
For the period of the study, male and female death rates for individuals in the 55–64 age bracket had the steepest rise.
Boys and men again recorded the highest rates of deceased due to alcohol use in both 1999 and 2020. But women’s death rates which earlier constituted as low as 4.8/100,000 women in 1999 increased an insane figure of 12/ 100,000 in 2020.
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