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Saturday, October 27, 2007

Drunks are literally legless

October 27, 2007


Getting "rolling drunk" may have more to do with muscle damage than alcohol's effect on the brain, an academic claims.

Dr Simon Worrall, from the University of Queensland's School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, has told a health symposium in Perth alcohol abuse not only affects the liver and brain, but also the heart and other muscles.

Dr Worrall said while the impact of alcohol on the liver and brain had been thoroughly examined by researchers over many decades, attention was turning to what it does to muscles.
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