Sorry, Guys: Binge Drinking as a Teen Raises Risk of Early Dementia
LatestThere are a lot of late-in-life negative side effects of excessive drinking during your teenage years: a total aversion to the “Sunset Blush” flavor of Franzia, an unending arsenal of humiliating Throwback Thursday photos for your mean-spirited friends and frenemies to avail themselves of, and so on. According to a recent Swedish study, though, these things are the least of your worries.
A study of nearly 500,000 Swedish men conscripted into military service between 1969 and 1979 identified “alcohol intoxication” as a late adolescent as the most serious of nine risk factors associated with young onset dementia (YOD), which is dementia before the age of 65. According to The Guardian: