United States: Experts warn that no matter the amount of alcohol, all volumes of alcohol consumption are dangerous to the human body, as the latest study links it to an increasing toll of deaths.
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The study out of Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine found that alcohol-related deaths almost doubled between 1999 and 2020.
Writing for The Atlantic, researchers calculated mortality rates from alcohol using data from CDC’s Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research or WONDER, a service that provides epidemiological information; alcohol mortality rates went from 10.7 per 100,000 in 1999 to 21.6 per 100,000 in 2020, Fox News reported.
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The largest rise (almost a fourfold jump) was recorded and referred to individuals within the age group of 25 to 34 years.
The results were presented in The American Journal of Medicine.
Experts also found that obesity and diabetes raised the risk of alcohol-related deaths.
These include the fact that an increased amount of alcohol consumption directly influences the mortality risk, according to Hennekens.
Dr. Ken Spielvogel, the senior medical advisor at Carrara Treatment Wellness & Spa in Los Angeles, agreed to the fact that greater portions of alcohol, in essence, lay down greater odds of developing hypertension, stroke, heart failure, and anything related to the heart.
The US Dietary Guidelines state that women, as well as individuals older than 65, should not have more than one standard drink per day while men should not have more than two standard drinks per day.
Dr. Adam Scioli, chief medical officer at Caron Treatment Centers in Pennsylvania, added that he was not surprised with the given results.
Women, in particular, have had a ‘dramatic increase’ in the intake of beer since the 1990s, with the help of Scioli, and the rates sharply soared during the pandemic, Fox News reported.
As for the details, he said the women seem to suffer higher risks from cirrhosis and alcohol-related liver diseases, congestive heart failure, heart attack, and stroke as well.