Women, alcohol and the menstrual cycle.

Gill, Jan S

Abstract

This review presents evidence which implicates a role for menstrual cycle phase in the
response of pre-menopausal women to moderate alcohol intake. It is concluded that the majority of
published studies have suffered from poor methodological design and have employed inadequate means
of cycle phase identification. Contradictory and ill-founded Findings have been reported. The best
evidence to date suggests that women eliminate alcohol more rapidly during the mid-luteal phase of the
cycle. This finding needs to be substantiated by further studies

Citation

Gill, J. S. (1996). Women, alcohol and the menstrual cycle. Alcohol and alcoholism : international journal of the Medical Council on Alcoholism. 32. . 435-441. . ISSN 0735-0414.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 1997
• Deposit Date: Feb 17, 2015
• Print ISSN: 0735-0414
• Electronic ISSN: 1464-3502
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 32
• Pages: 435-441
• Keywords: Alcohol consumption; alcohol abuse; menstrual cycle; menopausal women
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/7604