{"id":19143,"date":"2012-10-23T06:04:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T13:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feeling.com.mx\/site\/?p=19143"},"modified":"2012-10-23T06:42:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T13:42:25","slug":"el-alcoholismo-reduce-la-esperanza-de-vida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feeling.com.mx\/site\/19143\/el-alcoholismo-reduce-la-esperanza-de-vida.html","title":{"rendered":"El alcoholismo reduce la esperanza de vida"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Alemania vive un debate sobre la prevenci\u00f3n del alcoholismo tras el estudio que mostr\u00f3 una esperanza de vida menor en 20 a\u00f1os entre quienes dependen del alcohol, situaci\u00f3n que afecta en particular a las mujeres.<\/p>\n

Ulrich John, director del estudio realizado por cient\u00edficos de alemanes de Greifswald y de L\u00fcbeck, se\u00f1al\u00f3 que ning\u00fan dependiente del alcohol lleg\u00f3 al promedio de vida alem\u00e1n de 82 a\u00f1os para las mujeres y 77 para los hombres.<\/p>\n

Las mujeres adictas a esta sustancia viven una media de 60 a\u00f1os, mientras en los hombres es de 58 a\u00f1os. Seg\u00fan el estudio, este par\u00e1metro podr\u00eda ser muy similar en otros pa\u00edses.<\/p>\n

El estudio se basa en el seguimiento de cuatro mil 070 personas desde 1996 en la norte\u00f1a ciudad alemana de L\u00fcbeck y 46 localidades colindantes, de las cuales 153 fueron diagnosticadas como alcoh\u00f3licas y 149 de ellas investigadas por m\u00e1s de 14 a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n

Las mujeres parecen responder de forma m\u00e1s r\u00e1pida y fuerte que los hombres con enfermedades relacionadas con el consumo de alcohol, se\u00f1al\u00f3 John, aunque por el momento no se encontr\u00f3 alguna explicaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

La cantidad reconocida internacionalmente para mujeres es de 12 gramos diarios para mujeres, unos 20 mililitros (ml) de vino o 250 ml de cerveza, y 24 gramos, 250 ml de vino o medio litro de cerveza, para hombres.<\/p>\n

La investigaci\u00f3n tambi\u00e9n se\u00f1al\u00f3 que quienes se sometieron a una terapia para superar la adicci\u00f3n, no tuvieron esperanza de vida mayor que quienes no la realizaron.<\/p>\n

En consecuencia, el estudio arroj\u00f3 tambi\u00e9n la conclusi\u00f3n de que las ofertas terap\u00e9uticas sobre alcoholismo deben ser revisadas.<\/p>\n

En Alemania estas terapias se aplican demasiado tarde, cuando los afectados ya sufren numerosas enfermedades, y John se pronunci\u00f3 por medidas como el alza de precios, la prohibici\u00f3n de venta en gasolineras y la estricta prohibici\u00f3n del consumo al volante.<\/p>\n

En este pa\u00eds unos 9.5 millones de personas entre 18 y 65 a\u00f1os tienen problemas con el alcohol, y 1.3 millones son alcoh\u00f3licos, con da\u00f1os m\u00e1s frecuentes en el cerebro, h\u00edgado, coraz\u00f3n y diversos tipos de c\u00e1ncer.<\/p>\n

Los resultados de este estudio se publicar\u00e1n en enero en la revista estadunidense Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.<\/p>\n

Alcoholism ‘costs about 20 years of life’<\/p>\n

German researchers have found that alcohol dependency lowers life expectancy by about two decades – and that women alcoholics are especially at risk of an early death.
\n\u00abNone of the deceased alcoholics [we studied] reached the average age of 82 for women and 77 for men,\u00bb said Ulrich John, an epidemiologist at the University of Greifswald who led the study. The mean age at death for the alcohol-dependent group in the study was 60 for women and 58 for men.<\/p>\n

International guidelines say women should limit their alcohol consumption to 12 grams per day \u2013 the amount in an eighth of a litre or a glass of wine, or a quarter of a litre of beer. The daily limit for men is twice as much. <\/p>\n

\u00abWe were surprised that alcohol dependency appeared to be an especially big contributor to a shorter life compared to smoking,\u00bb he added. This would seem to be largely because alcohol kills earlier than tobacco.<\/p>\n

The study, conducted by scientists from Greifswald, Berlin and L\u00fcbeck, followed nearly 150 alcoholics for 14 years. The researchers’ results will be published in the January edition of the US journal \u00abAlcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.\u00bb<\/p>\n

Work on the study began in 1996, when the researchers started collecting and analysing medical data on more than 4,000 randomly selected residents of L\u00fcbeck and 46 neighbouring communities. The group of 119 men and 30 women identified as alcoholics were observed for more than a decade. <\/p>\n

John said that although researchers did not investigate the causes of death, it was assumed that alcohol dependency was the \u00abdominant ailment.\u00bb <\/p>\n

But scientists were unable to explain why women reacted more negatively to alcohol consumption than men – since, as John said, smaller body mass alone could not account for the trend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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