Excessive drinking is increasingly killing middle-aged adults — a trend that had been brewing for nearly two decades before it ramped up at an alarming pace when the coronavirus pandemic began
.published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds.The dramatic one-year rise comes after a long period of relatively steady increases in such deaths. From 2000 through 2018, age-adjusted alcohol-related deaths rose yearly, but never at a rate higher than 7%.The new research "unmasks the fact that we have a vulnerable population that was also living through the Covid-19 pandemic," said Dr.
Liver disease was the leading cause of alcohol-related deaths in the new report, followed by mental and behavioral health disorders, such as withdrawal. The largest increase was among women ages 35 to 44, from 7.2 deaths per 100,000 in 2019 to 10.2 per 100,000 in 2020 — an increase of 42%.
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