That prompted us to think, maybe this is a significant public health crisis.”

“We also became aware of reports from single centers of elevated alcohol use-related complications. “During the first few months of the pandemic, my colleagues and I saw increased numbers of patients being treated for acute alcohol use-related conditions in the intensive care unit and throughout the medical center,” said Yee Hui Yeo, MD, MSc, lead author of the study. They found that alcohol use disorder-related mortality rates increased among all ages and sexes during the pandemic.

In the study, published this month in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Network Open, investigators used predictive modeling to compare expected-also called projected-alcohol use disorder mortality rates to actual rates.

The study also found that young adults 25 to 44 years old experienced the steepest upward trend in alcohol use disorder mortality. Deaths involving alcohol use disorder increased dramatically during the pandemic, according to a new study by Cedars-Sinai investigators.

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