What are the effects on alcohol on your body after the age of 40?
19 January 2022
Midlife and later-life drinking appear to be fuelling the rise in booze consumption but this can have an effect on the body as “alcohol affects just about every system because it’s a small molecule,” says Professor Paul Wallace (UCL Epidemiology & Health).
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