A new study form the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, has found that a risk for alcoholism may also place people at a risk for obesity. There was an acknowledgement of the association between a family history of alcoholism and a risk of obesity. Both men and women with this family history were more likely to be obese in 2002 than ten years previously.
"In addiction research, we often look at what we call cross-heritability, which addresses the question of whether the predisposition to one condition also might contribute to other conditions," said study author Richard A. Grucza, Ph.D. "For example, alcoholism and drug abuse are cross-heritable. This new study demonstrates a cross-heritability between
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