Binge drinking is responsible for an epidemic or liver disease among teenage girls. Doctors in UK are treating a growing number of girls in their late teens and early twenties for alcohol-induced liver problems normally found in patients 20 years older. Professor Ian Gilmore,liver specialist at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, warned excessive drinking was creating a health "time-bomb" among young women. He said the problem had become so bad that cirrhosis of the liver usually found in middle-aged alcoholics was now common place among women in their twenties. Arecent study of pupils aged 11 to 15 showed for the first time girls were as likely as boys to have drunk alcohol and in similar amounts. Last year, it emerged young women drink an average 360 pints of alcohol a year. |
