A new study warns that alcohol-related deaths in the United States have increased, nearly doubling over the past 20 years, with a rising number of women affected.
Yuta Katsants, the head of Population Health and Social Medicine at Florida Atlantic University’s College of Medicine and senior author of the study, stated that their research revealed a significant gender gap in alcohol-related mortality rates.
He mentioned that while the overall death rate was higher in men, a relatively greater increase was observed in women, reflecting changing social norms and an increase in marketing campaigns targeting women by the alcohol industry.
For the study, Yuta and his colleagues examined U.S. government data from 1999 to 2020.
During this period, the alcohol-related death rate nearly doubled, rising from 10.7 per 100,000 to 21.6 per 100,000.
