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Do you like to drink a few drinks in the evening? Copas You can buy a bottle or Vino?
If you do, then you may be increasing your risk of suffering a debilitating and deadly stroke.
Researchers in the US say that heavy drinking is associated with more severe and earlier brain bleeds, also known as intracerebral haemorrhages.
They found that heavy drinkers – people who have three or more alcoholic drinks per day – developed a stroke on average eleven years earlier than those who drank less.
Their strokes were also bigger and harder to control.
The journal published the study by Mass General Brigham – a non-profit health system associated with Harvard Medical School. Neurology Last week.
Researchers examined over 1,600 patients who had brain bleeds treated at Massachusetts General Hospital in the period 2003-2019.
Andalucia’s health department says that most people with mental illness are addicted to tobacco, alcohol or cocaine.
The researchers studied CT and MRI scans, and noted alcohol use by patients, friends, and family members.
The average age for people who drink heavily was 64. This is 11 years younger than that of those who do not drink. However, the amount of bleeding they suffer is 70 per cent greater.
Heavy drinkers are also twice as prone to a brain bleed that is deep or spreads into the fluid-filled areas of the brain.
When they arrived at the hospital, their platelet count and blood pressure were lower. They also showed more evidence of damage to small blood vessels in brain tissue, which are linked to memory loss and dementia.
Edip Gurol is an associate professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and the co-author of this study.
To reduce this risk, it is important to minimize or stop alcohol consumption. Limiting alcohol consumption to three drinks per day may help protect against brain bleeding and preserve brain and cardiovascular health, even for those at low risk.
There could be good news for drinkers.
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According to a professor of sociology from Norway, heavy alcohol consumption at a young stage is associated with improved job prospects.
His book The Beauty and Pain of DrugsWilly Pedersen of University of Oslo claims that drinking can help young adults advance their careers by reducing social inhibitions.
Pedersen, his colleagues and he spent nearly two decades studying the drinking habits of over 3,000 young Norwegians aged 13-31.
Researchers found that heavy drinkers in late teens and early 20s had higher education levels and income than those who were teetotal, or who only drank a little.
Pedersen explained that “it’s not just the fact that alcohol is consumed, but that it enters your body and affects your brain.” The most likely explanation would be that alcohol in general is a social marker and that this habit is associated with certain benefits.
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