German researchers at the University of Greifswald Medical School found that alcoholic women were twice as likely to die over a 14 year period than alcoholic men.
The research, which included 4,070 Germans including 153 alcoholics, found that female alcoholics were five times more likely to die than women without a drinking problem. In contrast, alcoholic men were twice as likely to die compared to their more sober counterparts.
Study author Ulrich John, an epidemiologist at the University of Greifswald Medical School said the explanation behind this is a simple matter of genetics. “Females, in a more short time span, develop diseases such as liver cirrhosis,” he said. This is because the average woman has a higher percentage of body fat, than her male counterpart. Because fat does not absorbed alcohol, the alcohol becomes more concentrated in a woman’s body. Read the full article here.
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