A new study warns that alcohol-related deaths in the US have nearly doubled in 20 years, with a growing number of victims being women.
“Our study found significant gender differences in alcohol-related [death rates],” said senior author Yvetta Katsantis, chair of population health and social medicine at Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine.
Men also had higher overall death rates, but women saw a relatively larger increase, reflecting changing social norms and increased targeting of women through marketing campaigns by the alcohol industry, she said.
For the study, Yvetta and her colleagues looked at US government data from 1999 to 2020.
During this period, the rate of alcohol-related deaths nearly doubled, from 10.7 per 100,000 to 21.6 per 100,000.
