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8 mar 2024 · In aging adults, too much alcohol increases the risk of falls, accidents, car crashes, and other unintentional injuries. 15,16 Age plays a key factor in the risk of falls due to the physical, sensory, and cognitive changes that take place as a person gets older.
1 maj 2018 · Stress and depression related to menopause may trigger the onset of alcohol abuse or worsen established alcohol misuse. Alcohol abuse decreases quality of life and any potential positive effects of moderate alcohol intake are minuscule in comparison to the adverse effects caused by alcohol abuse.
12 sie 2024 · The associations of alcohol consumption patterns (mean alcohol intake status, wine preference, and drinking during meals) at baseline with all-cause and cause-specific mortality were summarized with hazard ratios (HRs) and their 95% CIs obtained from Cox regression; the models included interactions between alcohol consumption patterns and ...
Some older people feel the effects of alcohol more strongly without increasing the amount they drink. This can make them more likely to have accidents such as falls, fractures, and car crashes. Also, older women are more sensitive than men to the effects of alcohol.
1 mar 2023 · Among people in their mid-60s at baseline who were followed over a decade, consuming 3+ drinks per day on average was associated with a 36% increased likelihood of dying from cancer for men and a 99% increase in the risk for women (Kunzmann, Coleman, Huang, & Berndt, 2018).
Introduction. A significant number of older adults have ongoing problems with alcohol. It has fbeen estimated that between 10% and 50% of individuals age 60 or older drink in excess of current guidelines for alcohol consumption [1 – 4]. Even among adults 75 years or older up to 20–25% may engage in episodic heavy drinking [5, 6].
22 lip 2022 · Globally, in this age range, all injuries accounted for 66·3% (95% UI 65·1–67·5) of alcohol-related DALYs for males and 47·9% (46·0–49·8) of alcohol-related DALYs for females; transport injuries comprised 25·9% (25·0–27·0) of alcohol-related DALYs among males and 12·7% (12·0–13·4) among females, self-harm comprised 11·7% ...
