Alcohol consumption in Spainas we all know, is part of a tradition deeply rooted in culture and social customs. And it is that there is nothing how to toast with a beer or catch up with your friends over a good came on a terrace in the sun.
According to data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Spain is among the countries with higher consumption of alcohol at European level. What’s more, In 2021, the per capita consumption of alcohol in our country was 11 liters per person.
To take into account
In order to analyze why some people are more likely than others to drinka group of researchers from the Swansea Universityin the United Kingdom, and Lodz Medical Universityin Poland, have looked exhaustively at anatomical differences.
And, according to a new study published in “American Journal of Human Biology“, Drinking habits could have to do with the length of your fingers. There appears to be evidence that alcohol consumption is greatly influenced by prenatal sex steroids, so experts used a student sample for your investigation into the matter.
More details
Specifically, the study used a sample of 258 participants, 169 of them women, and revealed that consumption rates vary between sexes. Regarding women, Men have higher alcohol consumption and higher mortality from alcohol abuse.
Thanks to this, found relationships between high alcohol consumption and having a long fourth (ring) finger compared to the second (index) finger.. Among other things, this showed that high prenatal testosterone relative to estrogen is related to high alcohol consumption among students.
Future
“Alcohol consumption is a major social and economic problem. Therefore, it is important to understand why the alcohol consumption shows considerable differences between individuals. It is known that patients with alcohol dependence have a very long ring finger compared to the index finger“explained the professor John Manningfrom Swansea’s Applied Sports, Technology, Exercise and Medicine (A-STEM) research team.
Nowadays, researchers hope that their conclusions will provide a better understanding of the factors that lie beneath the pattern of alcohol consumption, from abstinence to occasional use and harmful dependence. In the coming months, almost certainly, more details will be known.
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