Study found that alcohol has more negative effects to women than men

News24xx.com - More and more women are addicted to liquor - but most of them are ignored by medical care. Formerly, men covered most of the alcohol consumption in Western societies - best described in popular culture by Don Draper in the Mad Men series.

But epidemiologists note that the increased marketing of alcohol in women and gender role change are slowly shifting the inequality.

Overall, men are still almost twice as likely to get drunk then women. But not so in the younger group.

In fact, women born between 1991 and 2000 now drink as much alcohol as men - and in the future, their consumption levels may surpass men.

More and more women also feel the bad effects of alcohol. The data show that cirrhosis mortality rates (liver damage) jumped 57% among women aged 45 to 64 years in 2000 2015 in the US, compared to 21% among men.

The figure increased 18% among women aged 25 to 44 years, despite declining 10% among men of the same age. And drinking patterns of risky alcohol are increasing especially among women. But the problem is not just that women drink more alcohol than men. The researchers found that women's bodies were affected by alcohol differently than men.

Scientists found that women produce an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenation (ADH), which is secreted in the liver and works to remove alcohol in the body, in a smaller quantity.

 

 

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