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Warning for women who binge drink
11-09-2007 · EurekAlert!As levels of binge drinking in the UK rise, doctors in this week's BMJ report three cases of bladder rupture in women who attended hospital with lower abdominal pain.
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- British women's binge drinking clearly defined by age and education
01-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
British women's binge drinking is clearly defined by their age and education, suggests a large, long term study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Educated women binge drink in their 20s, but curb their habits by their 40s. But the reverse is true of women with little education, whose binge drinking is more likely to take off in their 40s, shows the research.
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- Men, Women Have Similar Rates Of Compulsive Buying, Stanford Study Shows
10-06-2006 · ScienceDaily
Contrary to popular opinion, nearly as many men as women experience compulsive buying disorder, a condition marked by binge buying and subsequent financial hardship, according to new research from the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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- Spouse may 'drive you to drink' but also can protect you from alcohol
05-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
Men and women at risk for alcohol dependence are more likely to choose a mate who also is at risk, say investigators at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. That doesn't necessarily mean, however, that both spouses will end up as problem drinkers.
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- Pregnancy may increase the risk of developing binge eating disorder
09-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
Pregnancy may open a window of vulnerability for developing binge eating disorder, especially for women from lower socioeconomic situations, according to a study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers and colleagues in Norway.
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- Interviewing technique reduces risk for binge drinking, unplanned pregnancies
01-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
A University of Virginia Health System researcher and colleagues have just published findings showing that just a few targeted counseling sessions had a notably positive impact on women at high risk for binge drinking, unplanned pregnancy and exposure to alcohol during pregnancy. The counseling technique, called motivational interviewing (MI), has proven effective after just four counseling sessions.
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- Heavy drinking takes excessive toll on women with hepatitis C
01-25-2007 · EurekAlert!
Women tend to survive longer than men if infected with the liver-destroying hepatitis C virus -- but if they drink heavily, that survival advantage completely disappears, according to a new study.
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- A drink to healthy aging
12-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at the University of Newcastle say a glass of wine a day may be of benefit to the healthof older women.
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- Little evidence that binge drinking while pregnant seriously harms fetus
11-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
There is little substantive evidence that binge drinking while pregnant seriously harms the developing fetus, finds a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.Consistently heavy drinking throughout pregnancy has been associated with birth defects and subsequent neurological problems. But it is not known what impact binge drinking, in the absence of regular heavy drinking, might have. And this drinking pattern is becoming increasingly common, particularly among women, say the authors.
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- Most young women don't recognize heart attack warning signs
05-10-2007 · EurekAlert!
Most women 55 years and younger who have heart attacks don't recognize warning signs.
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- Binge drinking, gender and clinical depression
01-03-2007 · EurekAlert!
Alcohol consumption and depression have a complicated relationship. New findings indicate that depression is primarily related to binge drinking. The relationship between major clinical depression and alcohol consumption appears to be stronger for women than it is for men. However, men and women do not differ in the relationship between alcohol use and depression when depression is measured as recent feelings of depression or unhappiness.
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