Alcohol consumption has various impacts and dealing with them is not so easy. The impacts and their severity depend on the age of the person consuming alcohol and the level of consumption, whether moderate, heavy or complete abstinence. Studies reveal that the impact differs from men to women.

Alcoholic Impacts

The effect alcohol has on men and women are different given that they carry similarities in their height and weight. Again, among the same gender it varies from individual to individual. Studies show that women need more awareness in this issue taking into account that impacts and results vary in men and women.

Knowing these simple basic facts help you understand some of the complications in health hazard caused by alcohol in men and women. Alcohol does not have one single impact, it causes Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) affecting the fetus in pregnant woman, aggravates different types of cancer in men and women, diabetes, heart and circulation related problems, leads to partner or spousal violence, sexual assault, affects memory, leads to osteoporosis.

Alcohol Abuse Invites Cancer

Alcohol is said to cause different types of cancer in men and women. While alcohol abuse together with smoking surely leads to esophagus, larynx, liver and pharynx cancer in men, it is breast cancer in women.

Not all of these cancers are common except for breast cancer. Even moderate consumption of alcohol leads to breast cancers, while it is not the case in all other cancers. Hence, women are at a greater danger of facing trouble due to alcohol consumption.

Interesting Findings by Alcohol Research Center

Centre for Alcohol Research at the National Institute for Public Health in Denmark conducted a research over 13,000 women spread in the age group of 20 to 91 and the results where also consistent with the Framingham Study which indicated that the risk of breast cancer is not increased due to moderate consumption of alcohol.

It is interesting to note that alcohol also has positive effects on cancer. In a study conducted on 410 women with papillary thyroid cancer when compared to 574 women who were all healthy revealed that alcohol reduced the risk of developing such cancer.

While the topic here is about how alcohol invites cancer, it is also interesting to note how alcohol helps in reducing cancer. Similar to papillary thyroid cancer, alcohol also reduces the risk of suffering from kidney cancer or the renal cell carcinoma. While middle aged women had shown 38% lower chances of contracting this cancer, women aged over 55 years showed 66% lower chances.

Coming back to the topic of contracting breast cancer, the chances of a 25 year old suffering from breast cancer is one in 15,000 women. With age the chances of contracting cancer in breast also increases. A woman aged over 80 years, has a chance of 8.8 contracting the disease in every hundred women and every drink per day increases the chance by one percentage point.

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