It can now be said with scientific certainty that alcohol is bad for you.
A new study out of the University of Washington found that imbibing carries significant health risks, with a few perks for people over 40 and none for young people, according to a release published by EurekAlert.
The study, which was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and published in the British medical journal The Lancet, says it’s the first of its kind to assess alcohol risk broken down by geographical region, age, sex and age.
It looked at 22 health outcomes — such as injuries, cardiovascular diseases and cancers — using 2020 Global Burden of Disease data for men and women aged 15-95 years and older between 1990 and 2020, across 204 countries and territories.