The new study reveals a 25-year increase in alcohol mortality

In the analysis of the breed, sex, age and geography, the alcohol-induced mortality rate in 2024 is almost twice as much in 1999, with a sharp increase at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Although the rates are higher for men, the greatest increase in the number of deaths caused by alcohol during the full 25 years occurred in women aged 25–34, according to research published on September 17 by Dr. Tony Wong and colleagues from UCLA in the UCLA in the opening of the open PLOS Global Public Health.

Over the past two decades of deaths caused by alcohol have grown. The growth in 2019–2021 is particularly disturbing, when the population was significant insulation stress due to Covid-19 pandemic, and people with alcohol disorders were less able to obtain treatment. The quantification of mortality trends and determining whether alcohol -induced deaths have returned to pre -entemical levels, is necessary to understand long -term temporary patterns and dynamics. To examine these trends, the authors of this study analyzed the data from the National System of Disease Control and Prevention, focusing on 14 specific causes of death caused by alcohol.

Wong et al. He stated that alcohol -caused deaths in the United States almost doubled in 1999–2024, reaching the highest level in 2021. Most deaths are caused by alcoholic liver disease and, to a lesser extent, mental and behavioral disorders associated with alcohol. The largest overall increase in alcohol mortality in all breeds, sex, age groups occurred in 2021, when fatalities reached the peak in general 54,258 deaths. By 2024, a decrease in fatalities fell, but the average alcohol -induced mortality rate in American poviats remained about 25% higher than in 2019.

Population of native American Indians/Alaska (Aian) remain the most affected, and male alcohol mortality rates three times higher than in white men and women’s mortality rate Aian four times higher than in white women, throughout the entire test period.

The largest increase according to demographic data was among women aged 25-34, which increased from 0.9 deaths to 100,000 in 1999 to 3.2 to 100,000 in 2024 – an increase of 255 percent. The second largest increase was in men aged 25-34, from 2.3 mortality to 100,000 in 1999 to 6.5 in 2024 – an increase of 188 percent. Since deaths due to chronic diseases associated with alcohol consumption, such as some cancers or cardiovascular events, have not been taken into account in this study, the total number of mortality may be underestimated. These discoveries emphasize the critical need for targeted policy to reduce excessive alcohol consumption and improve access to treatment for people who need it the most.

A special increase in the number of deaths induced with alcohol among women is particularly disturbing. Although men are still dying at higher rates, the gender difference seems to close. In particular, in the case of a population aged 25-34, the male mortality rate to women decreased from three to one in 1999 to two to one in 2024. “

Maria R d’Orsogna, Department of Mathematics, California State University at Northridge

The authors summarize: “The increase in alcohol mortality is common and affects the whole country, and particularly high rapid increases arise during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the early months of Pandemia, induced by alcohol of death among men of alcohol, it increased by up to 40% in one month and remained disturbingly high for almost four years for almost four years, similar trends were observed by alcohol-like trends, which were observed by the alcohol rates of death, which were observed by alcohol, similar trends were observed by alcohol-like trends, of which It increased in one month in one month.