FHP women are more likely to experience adverse consequences, including problems with alcohol, as a result of their genetic risk (Akerman and Gondolf, 1991; Curran et al., 1999). More recent studies show that 1) FHP women with premenstrual symptoms drink more during the luteal phase (Sivikis et al., 2006), 2) FHP women who are heavy drinkers report increased negative outcomes of drinking (Pastor and Evans, 2003), and 3) FHP female college students have greater alcohol consumption than FHN female students (LaBrie et al., 2009), highlighting the need for more research assessing the risk factors associated with drinking among women with a family history of alcoholism.
