Alcohol consumption may be associated with educational attation.

Original title: Drinking behavior or education-related
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A recent study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry suggests that a higher education, or longer years of education, may affect a person's drinking behavior and reduce their risk of developing alcohol dependence.
alcohol intake is a major risk factor for death and disability globally. Scientists believe that identifying factors related to how much alcohol people drink, how often they drink, and what they drink may be important in developing and improving intervention and treatment strategies.
previous studies have shown that education may influence drinking behaviour, but there are often conflicts between the results obtained by different studies.
to assess the possible impact of education on alcohol behavior and alcohol dependence, a team of researchers at the National Institutes of Health used a two-sample Mondel randomization statistical method.
using genetic data from the International Genomics Alliance, researchers studied 53 genetic variants associated with differences in educational attestion and their association with certain drinking behaviors. They tested which of the 53 education-related variants were also found in DNA in people with different drinking behaviors reported by another study.
"We used data from about 780,000 study participants and found that genetic variants associated with 3.61 years of education were also associated with a reduced risk of alcohol dependence by about 50 percent," said Falk Lohoff, co-author of the study. Genetic variants associated with educational attation also affect drinking patterns and the types of alcohol consumed. the
researchers found that genetic variants associated with higher education were not related to the amount of alcohol people drank each week, but those with these genetic variants drank more frequently (six or more units of alcohol per round), lost memory from drinking less, and drank less alcohol per drinking day and less alcohol per week of distilled spirits, beer and cider.
they also noted that the association between this genetic mutation and less alcohol consumption was more pronounced in women than in men, but more pronounced in men with less beer and cider consumption.
, however, people with highly educated genetic variants, both men and women, drank more alcohol, especially men, and drank more red wine.
Lohoff said: "It is important to understand that while these variations allow us to study the possible effects of education on alcohol consumption and alcohol dependence, it does not mean that education cannot be changed. In this study, we demonstrated the possible impact of education on alcohol consumption, suggesting that improving education may be an effective goal in preventing problem drinking, alcohol dependence, and its consequences. Researchers
that the findings may be of limited application to other countries because the genetic data in the study came from people in English-speaking countries. In their view, it was necessary to repeat the study with data from other countries and races.
the researchers added that since the level of education in the study only measured the number of years in school, it was not possible to measure the impact on alcohol consumption in different aspects of education, but that the study could be conducted in
. (Zhao Xixi)
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China Science Journal (2019-10-28, 2nd edition international)
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