[LChoy]

Good thread to plug this:

Alcohol leads to more hospitalizations than heart attacks do in Canada

Last year, about 77,000 hospitalizations in Canada were due to conditions entirely caused by alcohol, compared with about 75,000 for heart attacks.
Alcohol Harm in Canada: Examining Hospitalizations Entirely Caused by Alcohol and Strategies to Reduce Alcohol Harm, a new report released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), examines hospitalizations that are 100% caused by the harmful consumption of alcohol. Examples include patients who are hospitalized for alcohol poisoning, alcohol withdrawal or liver disease caused by alcohol.

• Males age 20 and older had higher rates of heavy drinking and hospitalizations than females in the same age group. However, among those age 10 to 19, girls had higher hospitalization rates than boys, with 63 per 100,000 and 45 per 100,000, respectively.
• The majority of hospitalizations were linked to mental health and addictions. Conditions related to mental health and addictions accounted for nearly 3 out of 4 hospitalizations entirely caused by alcohol.

https://www.cihi.ca/en/alcohol-leads...s-do-in-canada

Alcohol harm on the rise for Canadian women

The rate of alcohol-related hospitalizations and deaths is increasing faster for women than for men.
The rate of women who died from causes linked directly to alcohol has increased by 26% since 2001, compared with a roughly 5% increase over the same period for men. In addition, more than 25,000 women had alcohol-related hospitalizations in 2016–2017, representing a nearly 3% increase in the alcohol hospitalization rate for women over the previous year. By comparison, the increase for men was 0.6% over the same period.

https://www.cihi.ca/en/alcohol-harm-...canadian-women

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