Alcohol is bad for your he alth
Drunk people are more likely to have accidents. This is the report of a University of Queensland researcher after extensive surveys of 500 Australian alcohol users she interviewed in hospitals. Their analysis of the data reveals that the risk of an accident is four times higher in the first six hours after drinking alcohol than without.
Even science has a summer slump. More and more results then flood the media, which otherwise hardly find their way into reporting. With the series "Summer slump today" we would like to present a selection to you. In addition to traffic accidents, alcohol-related drinkers were particularly likely to suffer from falls, crashed into objects more often and were also hit by others more often, reports Kerrianne Watt, who led the study. The evaluation also showed that drunk people who had frequented places open to the public were beaten more frequently.
The results "may seem obvious," says the author, but little research is available to date that has shed light on alcohol-related non-road accidents. It has now been shown that the risk after drinking alcohol increases in general.
According to the statistics, the amount of alcohol or any preferences of the drinkers for beer, schnapps or wine had no influence on the subsequent risk, the author calculated. However, mixtures of the alcohol types increased the later probability of maleur again. The sole consumption of beer also contributes to more serious accidents on average.
"My data suggests that perhaps it is not the type of alcohol consumed, but rather the personality structure of the drinkers that determines how aggressive they become and what their subsequent risk is," Kerr speculates. A certain personality type is also likely to be more attracted to certain types of alcohol.
