Alcohol-related liver disease deaths, increased among millennials in America more than any other age group in the years following the 2008 recession, a new study has found.
Researchers from the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System analysed hundreds of thousands of death certificates to track the rise in alcohol-related diseases between 2009 and 2016. The researchers focused on deaths caused by cirrhosis a late-stage scarring of liver that is the end result of most chronic liver diseases.
In the seven years directly following the recession, the researchers found, people aged 25 to 34 years saw a 10.6 per cent annual increase in deaths related to cirrhosis – even as mortality rates due to other causes decreased. The increase was the largest of any age groups, and was driven entirely by alcohol-related liver disease, according to the researchers.