Interactive: You could have high blood pressure and not know it<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cMost people experiencing gambling problems will never seek care, so the concern is that the increases in emergency department visits for gambling disorders we observed may be revealing much larger increases in gambling-related harm,\u201d senior author Daniel Myran said.<\/p>\n
The study found the largest increases occurred among men ages 10 to 29, with substantial increases also seen among men ages 30 to 44.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe concentration of the increase among younger males is particularly concerning given the rapid growth and promotion of online sports betting, which target this demographic,\u201d said lead author Ryan Forrest, a doctoral student at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.<\/p>\n
Researchers also found that more than 70% of gambling-disorder visits involved another mental health condition or substance-use issue.<\/p>\n
The authors noted that available estimates suggest at least 5% of women and nearly 12% of men worldwide experience at least one adverse consequence related to gambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New research suggests emergency room visits for gambling disorders increased significantly after online betting markets were legalized. According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-621818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}