Makoto Honda / 500px/Getty Images(NEW YORK) A new study is sounding the alarm about a rise in alcohol-related deaths, especially in women.
The investigation, published by JAMA s Substance Use and Addiction on July 28, examined 605,948 alcohol-related deaths from 1999 to 2020, which didn t include deaths from injuries, homicides or death indirectly linked to alcohol use. Researchers concluded men were 2.88 times more likely to die than women and that alcohol-related deaths were trending upward for both men and women.
However, the rate of death among women increased more rapidly over the same period, up to 14.7% between 2018 to 2020 versus 12.5% in men over the same two years.
ABC News Medical Contributor Dr. Darien Sutton told ABC News Good Morning America that there is a physiological difference between men and women when it comes to the effects of drinking, making women less able to metabolize alcohol as quickly as men.
"When we digest alcohol, it s digested with an enzyme
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