14 DAY TRIAL // Here is a piece of news that will likely stick to your head and start playing in a loop the next time you are at a party or at a social gathering where alcoholic beverages are on the menu.
In a nutshell, specialists with the Centers for Disease Control say that, according to recent data, excessive alcohol consumption is to blame for about 88,000 premature deaths documented in the US annually.
What's more, the researchers say that, after monitoring adults aged 20 to 64 between 2006 and 2010, they found that, during the study period, millions of years of potential life were lost because of alcohol.
“In total, there were 2.5 million years of potential life lost each year due to excessive alcohol use,” explains specialist Dafna Kanny with the Centers for Disease Control, as cited by Live Science.
Dafna Kanny and fellow researchers further detail that, of the 88,000 yearly premature deaths linked to alcohol consumption, 14,000 were due to liver disease.
Cirrhosis and alcohol dependence syndrome, on the other hand, were linked to 7,800 deaths and 3,700 deaths, respectively, the researchers write in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease.
It is believed that, for the time being, excessive alcohol consumption is a leading cause of premature death in the United States. Specifically, specialists say that it need be blamed for 1 in 10 deaths among working-age adults.