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Thu 06 Jun 2007Study says young men put greatest pressure on A&EYoung men are placing the biggest demands on hospital emergency departments, a new study presented yesterday suggests.The study at Cork University Hospital which reviewed more than 218,000 attendances at the hospital's A&E department between 2002 and 2006 found that the biggest attenders were men aged between 15 and 35 years.