Mortality associated with AUD is higher among men than among women (Rehm et al. 2014). For example, with the exception of Native Americans, mortality rates from alcoholic liver disease were at least twice as high among men compared with women (Hoyert and Xu 2012). Gender differences also existed with respect to alcohol-related morbidity. Thus, although alcohol overall contributed to 32 percent of liver cirrhosis cases, the rates differed significantly between men (39 percent of cases) and women (18 percent of cases) (Room et al. 2005).
