Friday, August 3, 2007

Women over 40 'at risk' drinkers

3 August, 2007

Women in their 40s are more likely to drink potentially harmful amounts on a night out than younger people, researchers in Cardiff have found.

While men's drinking peaked in their late 20s, women's alcohol intake reached its heights among the over-40s.
In a year, 893 people were breathalysed late at night in the city centre for the Cardiff University study. It found 40% of men and 20% of women had drunk over a level which put them more at risk of injury and ill-health.
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