By David Beasley
ATLANTA |
Tue Jan 8, 2013 3:10pm EST
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Binge celebration contributes to a deaths of about 12,000 women and girls annually in a United States and is a problem that gets ignored notwithstanding causing a prolonged list of health risks, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pronounced on Tuesday.
The sovereign health group found that one in any 8 women and one in 5 high propagandize girls reports binge drinking, that for females is tangible as immoderate 4 or some-more alcoholic drinks in a brief time.
About twice as many group than women binge drink, though a health risks are opposite for women and a dangers of their function pull reduction attention, CDC Director Thomas Frieden told reporters.
“Binge celebration is an under-recognized women’s health issue,” Frieden pronounced in a discussion call on a new report. “Women tend to be smaller and therefore are some-more receptive to a harms of ethanol during reduce levels of drinking.”
Binge celebration can boost a woman’s risk of breast cancer, heart disease, unintended pregnancy, intimately transmitted diseases and automobile accidents, he said.
CDC scientists reviewed information collected on a celebration behaviors of approximately 278,000 women aged 18 and older, as good as 7,500 high propagandize girls in 2011.
The news estimated that scarcely 14 million U.S. women binge splash about 3 times a month, immoderate an normal of 6 drinks during any binge. Half of all high propagandize girls who devour ethanol reported binge drinking, a CDC said.
The extreme use of ethanol is many common among white and Hispanic women, those aged 18-34, high propagandize girls and women with domicile incomes of some-more than $75,000, a CDC said.
Underage women and those who are profound should not splash during all, a CDC said. Other women are suggested not to have some-more than one alcoholic splash per day.
(Editing by Colleen Jenkins Cynthia Johnston and Dan Grebler)