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Science Women closing gender gap with alcoholism
Science Women closing gender gap with alcoholism | Women closing gender gap with alcoholism |
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| by William Atkins | |
| Tuesday, 06 May 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 According to the abstract, “In contrast with results from single cross-sectional analyses, there were few significant cross-cohort differences among groups of men compared at similar ages. On the other hand, women born between 1954 and 1963 were at 1.2-fold higher odds for lifetime drinking, and those who drank were at 1.5-fold higher odds for lifetime alcohol dependence, compared with the immediately preceding birth cohort (1944 to 1953).” Grucze stated, “We found that for women born after World War II, there are lower levels of abstaining from alcohol, and higher levels of alcohol dependence, even when looking only at women who drank. However, we didn't see any significant tendency for more recently born men to have lower levels of abstention, or higher levels of alcohol dependence." Grucze concluded that the results of the study help to add evidence that there is a “closing gender-gap in alcoholism.” As stated earlier, this closing gap is probably due to higher levels in alcoholic related problems in women and to steady levels in alcoholic related problems in men. The conclusion of their paper states, “These results suggest that there have been substantial secular increases in drinking and alcohol dependence among women, but not men. Analyses of single cross-sectional studies may tend to over-estimate secular trends by failing to account for age-dependent effects. Nonetheless, secular increases in drinking and alcohol dependence among women are evident after taking age-related factors into account.”
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