{"id":3455,"date":"2025-10-02T13:24:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/scientists-claim-less-intelligent-teenagers-may-be-at-risk-of-alcohol-problems\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:24:21","slug":"scientists-claim-less-intelligent-teenagers-may-be-at-risk-of-alcohol-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/scientists-claim-less-intelligent-teenagers-may-be-at-risk-of-alcohol-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists claim less intelligent teenagers may be at risk of alcohol problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-10-02 13:24:19<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Teenagers with lower IQs may be more likely to develop alcohol problems in adulthood.<BR><br \/>\nWriting in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, Swedish scientists from Linkoping University tracked nearly 600,000 boys born between 1950 and 1962, following them over six decades. <BR><br \/>\nThey found that 18-year-olds who performed poorly on cognitive tests had a 64 per cent higher lifetime risk of developing alcohol use disorder. <BR><br \/>\nEven after accounting for family history, the increased risk stood at 43 per cent.<BR><br \/>\nBy contrast, those with higher IQs were 40 per cent less likely to develop issues with alcohol. <BR><br \/>\nWithin families, siblings with lower IQ scores were still found to be at greater risk.<BR><br \/>\nThe researchers wrote: &#8220;This suggests that the association between IQ and alcohol use disorder risk cannot be fully explained by socioeconomic disadvantage.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nExperts said the findings underline the importance of considering \u201ccognitive traits\u201d alongside lifestyle factors when tackling alcohol abuse.<BR><br \/>\nAccording to the World Health Organization, alcohol causes around three million deaths worldwide each year. <BR><br \/>\nThe National Help Service (NHS) advises adults not to exceed 14 units of alcohol per week &#8211; about six pints of beer or six glasses of wine.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-10-02 13:24:19 Teenagers with lower IQs may be more likely to develop alcohol problems in adulthood. Writing in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, Swedish scientists from Linkoping University tracked nearly 600,000&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}