iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — New data from the Centers for Disease Control show that nearly 88,000 people may have died young due to drinking too much alcohol between 2006 and 2010.
Those who died from drinking, the CDC says, had their lives shortened by an average of 30 years. Among the health effects that were linked to drinking and an early death were breast cancer, liver disease and heart disease.
Of those whose deaths were attributed to excessive drinking, nearly 70 percent were working-age adults. That figure represents about 10 percent of deaths among adults between the ages of 20 and 64.
About five percent of deaths related to excessive alcohol use were individuals under the age of 21.
“Excessive alcohol use is a leading cause of preventable death that kills many Americans in the prime of their lives,” said Ursula Bauer, director of the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
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