A new study finds that middle-aged men who drink heavily are more likely to have memory loss problems than men who do not.

According to the Associated Press, researchers found that heavy alcohol consumption aged a man's brain up to six years in relation to memory loss and up to two years for basic mental abilities such as reasoning.

The study of 5,000 British civil servants was published in the journal Neurology. Adequate research of the effect in women could not be determined because the study included too few female heavy drinkers.