Drinking three or more alcoholic beverages a day may raise the risk for spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage at a much younger age than typical, researchers found.

These strokes occurred at an average age of 60 with such high alcohol consumption, 14 years earlier than seen without heavy drinking (P<0.0001), Charlotte Cordonnier, MD, PhD, of the University of Lille Nord de France in Lille, France, and colleagues,

Heavy drinking also predicted a near doubling in 2-year mortality risk after a deep intracerebral hemorrhage before age 60, the group reported in the Sept. 11 issue of Neurology.

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