RCP Comment On ONS Death Rates Due To Alcohol, UK

Professor Ian Gilmore, President of the Royal College of Physicians, said:”The new figures are deeply worrying as women seem to be more susceptible to the damaging physical effects of alcohol. This may be due to their smaller size and different fat distribution, but there are almost certainly other factors at play, possibly genetic and biochemical differences. My colleagues and I are certainly seeing more women with serious liver damage than ever before in our clinics.

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Filed under: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs on January 29th, 2008