Alcohol deaths grow by 30% in a year in the United States, the highest rate in the last 40 years
- Between 2019 and 2020, alcohol abuse deaths increased by 30%, exacerbating the upward trend of the last two decades. Three times more Americans have died from alcohol, even if it's not the leading cause.
Alcohol deaths in the United States have increased during the pandemic. In the last two decades it has had an upward trend, increasing each year by around 7%. However, by 2020, deaths from alcohol-related illnesses have increased by 23 per cent in 49,000 people, 13 per 100,000 inhabitants. The study conducted by the Center for Disease Prevention and Control datuok.Azken is the highest figure of 40 years in the United States. Several American media have received information.
More than a dozen diseases have been identified that can occur under the influence of alcohol; half of the deaths are due to liver diseases. In addition, it has risks to damage the pancreas, blood pressure, heart and cardiovascular system.
Men die more than twice as much as women and the majority of people aged 55 to 64 died. However, in the first year of the pandemic there was a greater increase among those under 45 years of age.
These data do not include deaths in which alcohol was a secondary agent, but also published by the CDC: the figure is usually three times, so in 2020 nearly 150,000 people died without a primary cause but with beverages such as cancer or car accident.
