Using the National Health Interview Survey (2000-2017), Sanford et al20 reported that 35% of cancer survivors who were current drinkers exceeded moderate drinking limits (>1 drink for women and >2 drinks for men) and 21% engaged in binge drinking (≥5 drinks during at least 1 day over ...
Reports that Charity Alcohol Concern is embarking on its first national integrated campaign to raise awareness of alcohol abuse in the run-up to Christmas in Great Britain. Launch of a responsive campaign to warn people about the dangers of binge drinking; Cost of binge drinking a year in ...
multi-state survey Trends in alcohol use and binge drinking, 1985–1999: Results of a multi-state surveyTrends in alcohol use and binge drinking, 1985–1999: Results of a multi-state surveydoi:10.1016/j.amepre.2003.12.017Background Alcohol abuse is a major public health problem in the ...
Alcohol consumption measures came from the Eurostat European Health Interview Survey schedule and from the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) questionnaire [22]. We modelled the weekly average number of drinks in the last year, the monthly frequency of drinking, and ...
Several points are highlighted in this large survey study examining age at onset of drinking and adverse childhood experiences in relation to alcohol use in 18- to 20-year-old male Marine recruits. Our risky drinking scores were based on the AUDIT-C instrument, in which scores of 4 points or...
“Based on your health and how alcohol affects you, you may need to drink less or not at all,” she added. Another alcohol abuse expert also felt that the rise in binge drinking among older women was the most concerning finding in the study. ...
The effects of modest drinking on life expectancy and mortality risks: a population-based cohort study Article Open access 06 May 2022 Background Alcohol consumption is commonplace in Australia, with the most recent national survey reporting that 79% of the adult population consumed alcohol in 2017...
It is terrible to say, but my boyfriend is really prone to binge drinking. I really hate it. I keep on warning him about the dangers of binge drinking and every timer I do so, he asks me, "Oh yeah? What are the dangers? You tell me what they are. A drink every once in a whi...
The code used for data analyses is available at:https://github.com/ChengyiDing/Binge_prs_UKBstudy. References Download references Acknowledgements This work was supported by grant funding: the CKB baseline survey and the first re-survey were supported by the Kadoorie Charitable Foundation in Hong ...
“Heavy” drinking is an ambiguous term, variably defined by studies as consuming an average of 2 or more drinks per day, or 5–6 drinks on some occasions (binge), or a positive Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test score, or a clinical diagnosis of alcohol abuse (Abel and Sokol, 1987). ...