Binge drinking linked to stroke in men (Korea)

Binge drinking - six or more alcoholic drinks at one occasion at lease once a week - is linked with stroke in South Korean men, researchers said. In the study, binge drinkers were defined as men who drank six or more servings of alcohol and women who drank four or more servings of alcohol on one occasion at least once a week. Most of the alcohol was soju, a native Korean distilled liquor similar to vodka. It is 25 percent alcohol by volume. The study, published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, found the risk of a bleeding stroke - hemorrhagic - was more than 300 percent higher among male binge drinkers, while the risk of total stroke was 86 percent higher among male binge drinkers - UPI