This news story about this newly published article begins with the claim:
"A new study of emergency department patients in 18 countries, made available online by the scientific journal Addiction, shows that the risk of injury caused by acute alcohol consumption is higher for women compared with men."
This claim is surely false, although the authors do not provide the information in the paper necessary to evaluate the claim one way or the other. The sex comparison is in Table 3, but no absolute risk information is provided anywhere. And not only the journalists are at fault here, because the authors also make the same false claim in the discussion section:
"Injury risk was similar for males and females up to three drinks prior to injury, but then appeared to increase more rapidly for females and estimates diverged at higher volume levels."
This sort of misleading risk relativism is a curse that we must be vigilant against!
"A new study of emergency department patients in 18 countries, made available online by the scientific journal Addiction, shows that the risk of injury caused by acute alcohol consumption is higher for women compared with men."
This claim is surely false, although the authors do not provide the information in the paper necessary to evaluate the claim one way or the other. The sex comparison is in Table 3, but no absolute risk information is provided anywhere. And not only the journalists are at fault here, because the authors also make the same false claim in the discussion section:
"Injury risk was similar for males and females up to three drinks prior to injury, but then appeared to increase more rapidly for females and estimates diverged at higher volume levels."
This sort of misleading risk relativism is a curse that we must be vigilant against!
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