HEALTH  NET

WOMEN AND ALCOHOL


Alcohol can affect men and women in different ways. Because of this, women who are heavy drinkers are at greater risk of liver disease than men. 
A single drink briefly raises the alcohol concentration in a woman's bleed to a higher level than in a man's blood. This is partly because a deference in the amount of enzymes in the stomach lining causes women to absorb more rapidly a greater proportion of the alcohol from a drink than men; because women are generally smaller than men; and because women have a higher proportion of fat in their body weight-fat tissue does not absorb alcohol.

 

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