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THURSDAY, Oct. 1, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The rates of alcohol-induced deaths increased from 2006 to 2018 for adults aged \u226525 years, with a greater rate of increase in rural versus urban areas, according to an October data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics.<\/p>\n
Merianne Rose Spencer, M.P.H., from the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, and colleagues used data from the National Vital Statistics System to examine alcohol-induced deaths among adults aged 25 years and older in the United States.<\/p>\n
The researchers found that the age-adjusted rates of alcohol-induced deaths were stable from 2000 to 2006, then increased from 10.7 to 15.3 per 100,000 in 2006 to 2018, respectively (43 percent increase). Between 2000 and 2018, alcohol-induced death rates increased at a greater rate for both men and women in rural versus urban areas. Among men, in 2000, the rate of alcohol-induced deaths was highest in large central metro areas (21.3); rates were highest in medium and small metro, micropolitan, and noncore areas by 2018 (25.1, 25.9, 26.7, and 25.3, respectively). Among women, in 2000, the rate of alcohol-induced deaths in noncore areas was among the lowest (4.4); rates in noncore areas had more than doubled by 2018 (9.9).<\/p>\n
“While rates were higher for males than females for each year, the rate of change was greater for females, resulting in a narrowing of the differences between male and female rates,” the authors write.<\/p>\n