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Scots Death by Drinking Rate Fastest in Europe
Story: Scots are drinking themselves to death at a faster rate than people anywhere else in Western Europe, a study has found. In the past decade the traditionally wine-drinking countries of continental Europe have slowed their consumption and seen a substantial fall in cirrhosis of the liver, one of the worst side-effects of excessive alcohol.But in the same period death rates from the disease in Scotland have risen faster than anywhere else in the region to become one of the highest. Scottish men are now more than twice as likely to die form liver cirrhosis alcoholic liver disease, as they were in 1991, while the number of women dying increased by almost half. The latest figures for 2002 show three times as many Scots than English or Welsh people died from the disease.
In the 1950’s, England and Wales had the lowest rates of liver cirrhosis death in the western Europe. For men, the figure was 3.4 per 100,000 per year and for women, 2.2. Scotland had higher rates of 8.2 and 6.1… By 2001 Scottish men and women had the third and second highest level in Europe, with rates of 34.4 deaths per 100,000 per year for men and 16.1 for women.