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Alcohol related disorders among participants aged 40 to 79 years was much higher in men (12.8%) than in women (3.8%). In addition, such disorders was found to be higher in subjects (both male and female) for subjects born after 1920 then for those born between 1900 and 1919.
Overall, the researchers did not find any decrease in alcoholism, alcoholic cardiomyopathy, alcoholic cirrhosis, and other alcohol-related disorders among the subjects aged 30 to 79 years.
According to the abstract to their paper, “We found a decrease in average intake and more wine consumption over the more than 50 years of follow-up. The cumulative incidence of alcohol use disorders, however, did not show a decrease.”
The researchers commented on their results in their paper. They stated, “The findings in this study may be considered encouraging in many ways: The average amount of alcohol has decreased in more recently born cohorts, the percentage of the population exhibiting 'moderate' alcohol intake has been increasing steadily, and the percentage reporting 'heavy' drinking has decreased over time.” [Fox News: “Study: Americans Drinking Less Alcohol”]
The researchers in the study are associated with: Section of Preventive Medicine and
Epidemiology, Evans Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal
Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
and Boston Medical Center, Massachusetts; Clinical Epidemiology
Research and Training Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine,
Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston
Medical Center; Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section
of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University
School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center; Department of
Epidemiology and Youth Alcohol Prevention Center, Boston University
School of Public Health; and the NHLBI Framingham Heart Study,
Framingham, Massachusetts.
For additional information on alcohol use and abuse, please go to the website of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, a part of the National Institutes of Health.
David Bass
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