This week: US liver transplants up 50% in pandemic; Social media behaviours linked to high risk alcohol use; Statistics: US alcohol deaths three times those from road accidents and guns
US liver transplants because of alcoholic liver disease increased by more than 50% in the first year of the covid pandemic, double the increase seen in alcohol deaths, a new study says.
Deaths from alcohol specific causes increased by 25% in the first year of the pandemic, a increase that the CDC currently forecasts to have increased further in the second year of the outbreak.
High-risk alcohol use was predicted by people posting words on social media related to alcohol, partying, informal expressions, swearing, and anger, according to a US study. Low risk drinkers’s posts tended to be more the opposite.
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