{"id":233701,"date":"2026-01-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/count-rate-of-ed-visits-for-alcohol-specific-diagnoses-increasing\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:10:20","slug":"count-rate-of-ed-visits-for-alcohol-specific-diagnoses-increasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/count-rate-of-ed-visits-for-alcohol-specific-diagnoses-increasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Count, Rate of ED Visits for Alcohol-Specific Diagnoses Increasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\n<p>Throughout 2003-2004 to 2021-2022, the alcohol-specific diagnosis visit rate was higher for male than female individuals<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p><b>By Elana Gotkine HealthDay Reporter<\/b><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, Jan. 20, 2026 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The count and rate of emergency department (ED) visits for alcohol-specific diagnoses increased from 2003-2004 to 2021-2022 among male and female individuals, according to a report issued by the National Center for Health Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Xianghua Yin, Ph.D., M.D., from the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, and colleagues present ED visit estimates by sex from 2003-2004 to 2021-2022 for alcohol-specific diagnoses.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that from 2003-2004 to 2021-2022, there was a 101 percent increase in the count of ED visits for alcohol-specific diagnoses among male individuals, from 1,986,000 to 3,998,000 visits. The count of ED visits for alcohol-specific diagnoses among female individuals increased by 96 percent during the same period, from 701,000 to 1,374,000 visits. The rate of alcohol-specific diagnosis visits for male individuals increased by 75 percent from 2003-2004 to 2021-2022, from 71 to 124 visits per 10,000 population; during the same period, the rate for female individuals increased by 71 percent, from 24 to 41 visits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Throughout the period, the alcohol-specific diagnoses visit rate for males was higher than for females,&#8221; the authors write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hestat\/hestat109.htm\">Abstract\/Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Copyright &#169; 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/consumer.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout 2003-2004 to 2021-2022, the alcohol-specific diagnosis visit rate was higher for male than female individuals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":234557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-233701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}