Alcohol-related Emergency Room visits are not uncommon in the U.S.; a new study found Budweiser was often the culprit in these intoxicated hospital trips.
Other drinks that were high on the hazard list included: Steel Reserve Malt Liquor, Colt 45 malt liquor, Bud Ice, Bud Light, and a cheap brand of vodka called Barton's, NBC reported.
About 9.1 of all beer sales go to Budweiser, but it accounts for 15 percent of Emergency Room visits related to alcohol.
"Recent studies reveal that nearly a third of injury visits to Level I trauma centers were alcohol-related and frequently a result of heavy drinking. Understanding the relationship between alcohol brands and their connection to injury may help guide policy makers in considering taxation and physical availability of different types of alcohol given the harms associated with them," lead study author David Jernigan, PhD, The Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) director, said, according to a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health press release.
Researchers looked at ER patient's alcohol consumption, and what kind of liquor or beer they had drank before the injury or incident occurred.
In the study,105 people admitted to drinking alcohol before their injuries (the research was conducted on Friday and Saturday nights).
"Some products are marketed to certain groups of people in our society," Traci Toomey, the director of the University of Minnesota's alcohol epidemiology program, who was not involved in the study, said, according to NBC. "So we might want to put some controls on certain products if we find they are tied to greater risk. But how they are marketed and priced is critical information and that has been very hard to study."
Sixty-nine percent of the intoxicated patients were male, and 69 percent were also African American, but this could have been a reflection of the neighborhoods demographic, the press release reported.
In the future, researchers hope to conduct a larger study on the subject.
