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Excessive drinking when overweight can significantly increase a person's chances of suffering from a brain injury, a new study has found.

The report shows that overweight drinkers may be more susceptible to a brain injury than drinkers who are not overweight.

Stefan Gazdzinski, who was a researcher at Northern California Institute for Research and Education in San Francisco when the study was carried out, explained that the increase in obesity rates makes it an important issue to look at.

Dieter J. Meyerhoff, professor of radiology at the University of California San Francisco, said that it had previously been assumed that high alcohol consumption in itself causes brain injury.

"This is only partly correct. In previous studies, we have shown that alcoholics who smoke cigarettes have greater brain injury [risk] than nonsmoking alcoholics. This new study suggests that a high BMI, independent of drinking and smoking, is also associated with brain injury."

The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland recently issued a report suggesting people in the country with alcohol-related brain injuries may not be receiving the right treatment.

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