17 Oct 2012
Alcohol
dependency will reduce a person’s life by two decades-and women
alcoholics are at greater risk, German researchers have discovered.
Ulrich John, an epidemiologist of University of Greifswald who led the study has said that none of the deceased (they studied) reached the average age of 82 for women and 77 for men.
“We were surprised that alcohol dependency appeared to be an especially big contributor to a shorter life compared to smoking,” he has said. He also rejected the claims that tobacco is deadlier than alcohol.
The study, conducted by scientists from Greifswald, Berlin and Lübeck, followed nearly 150 alcoholics for 14 years. The researchers’ results will be published in the January edition of the US journal “Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.”
Work on the study began in 1996, when the researchers started collecting and analyzing medical data on more than 4,000 randomly selected residents of Lübeck and 46 neighboring communities.
As part of the study, 119 men and 30 women were observed for a decade.
John has also stated although investigators did not study the causes of death, it was assumed that dependency on alcohol was the dominant ailment.
Scientists are yet to prove why women reacted more aggressively to alcohol than men and smaller body mass could not be taken into consideration for the trend, John added.
Ulrich John, an epidemiologist of University of Greifswald who led the study has said that none of the deceased (they studied) reached the average age of 82 for women and 77 for men.
“We were surprised that alcohol dependency appeared to be an especially big contributor to a shorter life compared to smoking,” he has said. He also rejected the claims that tobacco is deadlier than alcohol.
The study, conducted by scientists from Greifswald, Berlin and Lübeck, followed nearly 150 alcoholics for 14 years. The researchers’ results will be published in the January edition of the US journal “Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.”
Work on the study began in 1996, when the researchers started collecting and analyzing medical data on more than 4,000 randomly selected residents of Lübeck and 46 neighboring communities.
As part of the study, 119 men and 30 women were observed for a decade.
John has also stated although investigators did not study the causes of death, it was assumed that dependency on alcohol was the dominant ailment.
Scientists are yet to prove why women reacted more aggressively to alcohol than men and smaller body mass could not be taken into consideration for the trend, John added.
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