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‘Worrying’ increase in alcohol-related deaths among young women in Britain

  • There has been a fall in the overall number of alcohol-related deaths
  • But deaths among women aged between 30 and 40 are increasing
  • Experts say minimum unit pricing would help, but that it won’t address the ‘deep rooted cultural influences at play’

By
Emma Innes


PUBLISHED:

11:01 EST, 19 July 2013

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UPDATED:

11:09 EST, 19 July 2013

There has been a ‘worrying’ increase in alcohol related deaths among women aged between 30 and 40 over the past ten years, according to research.

This is despite an overall fall in alcohol-related deaths and experts have described the trend as a ‘warning signal’ that must be heeded.

They said minimum pricing might help, but that the UK’s culture of drinking needed to be addressed in order to make real changes.

There has been a 'worrying' increase in alcohol related deaths among young women since the middle of the last decade despite an overall fall in alcohol related deaths

There has been a ‘worrying’ increase in alcohol related deaths among young women since the middle of the last decade despite an overall fall in alcohol related deaths

They focused their research on Glasgow, Liverpool, and Manchester, all of which have similar levels of poor health, deprivation, and industrialisation.

The researchers analysed trends in deaths related to alcohol in all three cities from the 1980s up to 2011.

Across all three cities, similar age trends were evident, with the highest proportion of alcohol related deaths among men and women in their 40s and 50s.

Alcohol related deaths were roughly two to three times as high among men as among women in all three cities.

However, a distinct pattern emerged for the youngest birth cohort of women—those born in the 1970s.

Unlike the men born at this time,
women in Glasgow were dying from alcohol related causes at a much
earlier age than in the previous birth cohort—and in ‘notable numbers’
during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Analysis of the birth cohorts for
Liverpool and Manchester produced broadly similar trends, with deaths in
young women in all three cities increasing at a much faster rate than
they did in men.

Alcohol related deaths were roughly two to three times as high among men as among women but the number of deaths among young women is increasing faster

Alcohol related deaths were roughly two to three times as high among men as among women but the number of deaths among young women is increasing faster

Increased affordability and availability of alcohol, combined with effective marketing by industry, and the promotion of the night time economy, have undoubtedly played their part, say the authors.

Minimum unit pricing would help, but that won’t address the ‘deep rooted cultural influences at play,’ they say.

‘The similarity of trends in alcohol related deaths in young women in Glasgow, Manchester, and Liverpool raises real concerns for the long term health of this cohort in both England and Scotland,’ they say.

As this occurred in all three cities, it ‘is hard to dismiss this as a city-specific phenomenon,’ they continue, adding: ‘It is imperative that this early warning sign is acted upon. Failure to have a policy response to this new trend may result in the effects of this increase being played out for decades to come.’

The research was published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

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Glasgow, Manchester and Liverpool – all enclaves of the Left, the standard MO of Leftists is to create poverty so they can more easily control people, add in the fact that women between the ages of 30 and 40 are the children of the sixties feminists that set out to destroy the family which they have succeeded in doing and we now have large numbers of women that have a lot of psychological issues that are suppressed by drinking and partying.

Thanatos
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London, United Kingdom,
19/7/2013 20:24

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@George Orwell: Some piggies are MORE EQUAL than others – and TPTB Really, really bad, at the top, in the shadows, want a 2 tiered society, NEO-SURFS who die young and Cliff Richards who go on and on…

PrivateSi
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WORCS,
19/7/2013 20:19

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Nothing to worry about .. They know the score.. You smoke.. You drink… You take drugs … The choices are there for everyone… Common sense will get them through .. Stupidity will not… That life in 2013 .. You just have to deal with it… Nobody appears to care anyway.. Binge drinking has been reported on for the past 20 years and it’s still a problem… So what does that tell you… More of the same for another 20 years ..?

The wizard
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london, United Kingdom,
19/7/2013 20:09

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I thought we were all supposed to be living longer not shorter.

Eric Arthur Blair
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Plymouth, United Kingdom,
19/7/2013 19:44

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Alcohol abuse is the next cancer time-bomb set to explode.

Ms Ellanias
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NO INFOMATION WARE., United Kingdom,
19/7/2013 18:36

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Alcohol abuse is the next cancer time-bomb set to explode.

Ms Ellanias
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NO INFOMATION WARE., United Kingdom,
19/7/2013 18:36

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