Alcohol Use

Alcohol increases sleep intensity in young women

Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 14th, 2006

While numerous studies have linked alcohol abuse to sleep disruption, especially in males, there has been little research on alcohol and its effects on sleep in females. Now, a new study shows that a moderate amount of alcohol, taken before bed, can put young women into deep sleep more quickly than is typical.

"We found that a moderate dose of alcohol consumed by a young woman an hour before bed is associated with increased sleep intensity in the first couple hours of the sleep episode," said author Mary A. Carskadon, PhD, with the Bradley Hospital Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory and Brown Medical School.

This phenomenon was observed in well-slept...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-09-14)

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