Word: falloff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...researchers made another startling discovery: men who are alcoholics have about half as much alcohol dehydrogenase as their healthy counterparts, but alcoholic women show almost no enzyme activity at all. The falloff may result from alcohol's injuring the stomach wall, where the enzyme is manufactured. Whatever the cause, "alcoholic women appear to lose all gastric protection," says Dr. Charles Lieber of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, who collaborated on the study with Dr. Mario Frezza of the University School of Medicine in Trieste, Italy. "For them to drink alcohol is the same as shooting...