Women more likely to binge drink when estrogen levels are higher, new study finds

Report author says a great deal less is known about ‘what drives alcohol drinking behaviour in females because most studies of alcohol use have been done in males’ -

Women are more likely to binge drink when they have higher levels of estrogen, new research has suggested.

The study, by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, discovered women’s relationship to binge drinking is linked to their estrogen levels with the hormone causing them to consume large amounts of alcohol in their first half an hour of drinking.