Almost two-thirds of Ontarians consume alcohol; some seek help from emergency rooms; who are they and why? Daniel T Myran et al. (2019) investigated who and why Ontarians sought emergency rooms’ help for alcohol-related problems. Their study covered emergency room data from 2003 to 2016. Who were they? Two-thirds were men. Of all ER attendees, two-thirds (67.7 per cent) were men (Figure 1). Figure 1: Ontarians’ ED visits by gender, 2003-2016 Almost half of the men were middle-aged. Of them (men), nearly half (42.1 per cent) were between 41 and 64 years. However, almost one-tenth (9.1 per cent) were 18…

Updated on March 31, 2024. Zoom in to the following graph’s red bars; Those red bars represent the probabilities of conceiving a baby with Down syndrome in each group. As we can see in the X-axis, women aged 30 and younger carry the lowest probability risk. Then, the risk level rises with age from 1.3 per cent at 30-34 to 34.6 at 45 and above. Now, zoom in on the blue bars. Those represent the share of women with such babies out of all women who delivered babies having Down syndrome by woman’s age group. Now, the pattern reverses. The…