Obesity combined with daily alcohol consumption increases the risk of liver disease in both men and women, according to a new report on the American Gastroenterological Association’s official website. According to a University of Oxford study of 102,000 middle-aged British women followed for an average of six years, they found that women who were overweight or obese were at high risk for cirrhosis, and their risk was exacerbated if they also consumed 1/3 or half a glass of alcohol per day. If they drank 2.5 glasses of alcohol a day, only 2.7 out of 1,000 normal-weight subjects would develop cirrhosis, while 5 out of 1,000 obese people would develop cirrhosis. Another study was done by the University of Glasgow and the University of Bristol in the UK. They followed more than 9,000 male subjects in Scotland with an average age of 29 years and found that high alcohol intake and obesity increased the incidence of liver disease much more than one would expect.