MedPage Today (11/2, George) reports, “People in their 20s and 30s who were moderate-to-heavy drinkers were more likely to have a stroke in early adulthood compared with those who consumed low amounts of alcohol each week,” researchers concluded in study findings published online in the journal Neurology. The study of 1,536,668 young people revealed that those “who consumed 105 g of alcohol per week, or 15 g per day, for two or more years were more likely to have a stroke over 5.6 years of follow-up versus light drinkers,” and “stroke risk rose as the number of years of moderate-to-heavy drinking in young adulthood increased.”
HealthDay (11/2) reports the study also found that “high alcohol burden scores were associated with significantly higher risks for hemorrhagic stroke.”
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