Recent medical studies have pointed out that alcohol addiction patients are more prone to eating disorders, the most obvious of which is bulimia nervosa, which may be related to genetic types.

The September issue of the latest issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs reported that patients with alcohol addiction are more prone to eating disorders, and patients with eating disorders are also more likely to become alcoholic. Addiction, which may be related to the type of gene.

Melissa Munn-Chernoff, a researcher at Washington University in St. Louis who participated in the study, said that studies have found that patients with eating disorders have a high percentage of alcohol and alcohol. As for the problem of addiction, some studies have found that the incidence of bulimia in alcohol addiction patients exceeds the rate of occurrence of anorexia, but the relationship between the two can be explained from the genetic point of view, so far no further research.

Mohnitchenoff and the research team used 6000 Australian twins as the research object, through a series of diagnoses, to analyze daily drinking and eating habits.

Researchers compared the data between twins and found that if a person appears to have alcohol, bulimia, or anorexia, the genes seem to play an important role; for example, in the twin women, the above-mentioned three kinds of disorders can be determined by genetic analysis. The ratio of the risk index is between 38% and 53% respectively.