{"id":385463,"date":"2018-11-17T21:18:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T20:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-alcohol-killing-more-people-in-us-especially-women-study\/"},"modified":"2018-11-17T21:18:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T20:18:54","slug":"presstv-alcohol-killing-more-people-in-us-especially-women-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-alcohol-killing-more-people-in-us-especially-women-study\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Alcohol killing more people in US, especially women: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>More people in the US are dying of alcohol-related causes and the biggest increases in mortality are among women, according to a new analysis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From 2007 to 2017, the number\u00a0of deaths attributable to alcohol increased 35 percent, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2018\/11\/16\/alcohol-deaths-emergency-room-increase-middle-aged-women-addiction-opioids\/1593347002\/\"><em>USA Today<\/em><\/a> newspaper reported Friday, citing the\u00a0Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation\u00a0at the University of Washington in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Deaths among men rose 29 percent, while rising 67 percent among women, the study found, an alarming statistic because females once drank\u00a0far less\u00a0than males.<\/p>\n<p>Deaths\u00a0among people aged 45 to 64\u00a0rose by about 25 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The story is that no one has noticed this,&#8221; says\u00a0Max Griswold, who helped develop the\u00a0alcohol estimates for the institute.\u00a0&#8220;It\u00a0hasn&#8217;t really been researched before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC, the capital of the United States, had\u00a0the highest rate of death from alcohol in the country, according to the institute&#8217;s analysis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The institute published a study in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/11\/17\/580310\/US-Alcohol-deaths-USA-Today\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More people in the US are dying of alcohol-related causes and the biggest increases in mortality are among women, according to a new analysis. From 2007 to 2017, the number\u00a0of deaths attributable to alcohol increased 35 percent, the USA Today newspaper reported Friday, citing the\u00a0Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation\u00a0at the University of Washington in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-385463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}