American women have been approximately near to men's ranking in terms of drinking habit, based on a new government report.
From year 2002 to 2012 the researchers have found out that alcohol intake of women rose from 45 percent up to 49 percent while for men it rose up to 57 percent over the previous 56 percent. The said analysis focused only from the previous 30 days.
Aaron White, the leader of the study and a senior scientific advisor to the director of the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has said in released institute news: "We found that over that period of time, differences in measures such as current drinking, number of drinking days per month, reaching criteria for an alcohol use disorder, and driving under the influence of alcohol in the past year, all narrowed for females and males,"
"Males still consume more alcohol, but the differences between men and women are diminishing," White added.
Investigators also discovered a really bothering truth about the amount of drinking days in the past month which also became bigger with women, from 6.8 to 7.3 days, but cut down among men, from 9.9 to 9.5 days.
"The prevalence of combining alcohol with marijuana during the last drinking occasion among 18- to 25-year-old male drinkers increased from 15 percent to 19 percent, while the prevalence of combining alcohol with marijuana during the last drinking occasion among 18- to 25-year-old female drinkers remained steady at about 10 percent," White said.
The link between the gap of women and men are not that obvious and it seems it is neither connected with factors like employment, pregnancy, or marital status. The researchers will continue to study more in order to recognize the explanation of the said development and how it will influence prevention and treatment.
NIAAA Director George Koob said in the news release, "This study confirms what other recent reports have suggested about changing patterns of alcohol use by men and women in the U.S.."
