RESEARCH ARTICLE
The prevalence of and factors associated with high-risk alcohol consumption in Korean adults: The 2009–2011 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Jae Won Hong, Jung Hyun Noh, Dong-Jun Kim*
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Department of Internal Medicine, Ilsan-Paik Hospital, College of Medicine, Inje University, Koyang, Gyeonggido, Republic of Korea * [email protected]
Abstract Background OPEN ACCESS Citation: Hong JW, Noh JH, Kim D-J (2017) The prevalence of and factors associated with high-risk alcohol consumption in Korean adults: The 2009– 2011 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. PLoS ONE 12(4): e0175299. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175299 Editor: Wenke Feng, University of Louisville School of Medicine, UNITED STATES
The consequences of alcohol consumption on health outcomes are largely determined by two separate, but related, dimensions of drinking: the total volume of alcohol consumed and the pattern of drinking. Most epidemiological studies focus on the amount of alcohol consumed and do not consider the pattern of drinking.
Objectives This study evaluated the prevalence of and factors associated with high-risk and heavy alcohol drinking in Korean adults.
Received: December 20, 2016 Accepted: March 23, 2017
Methods
Published: April 6, 2017
This study analyzed 15,215 of the 28,009 participants in the 2009–2011 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES). High-risk alcohol drinking was defined as Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) scores 16, which provides a framework for intervention to identify hazardous and harmful drinking patterns as the cause of alcohol-use disorders, according to World Health Organization guidelines.
Copyright: © 2017 Hong et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: Readers can access the dataset by registering an account with the Korean CDC website (https://knhanes.cdc.go.kr/ knhanes/index.do). There is a blue bar on the top of the website. Click the third menu, written in Korean, “원시자료” (The content about the raw data) on the blue bar. There is a second submenu below the blue bar, written in Korean “원시자료 다운로드 (Download the raw data)”. Once readers click this, an e-mail address for log-in is required. Once logged in, readers can download the raw data from 1998-2012 Korea National Health and Nutrition
Results The prevalence of high-risk drinking was 15.1%, with the highest prevalence of 17.2% in middle-aged adults (45–64 years). In men, the prevalence of high-risk alcohol drinking was 23.7%, with the highest prevalence found in middle-aged adults. In women, the prevalence of high-risk alcohol drinking was 4.2%, with the highest prevalence found in younger adults. Men had higher weighted mean AUDIT scores than women (10.0 vs. 4.0, P
The prevalence of and factors associated with high-risk alcohol consumption in Korean adults: The 2009–2011 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Jae Won Hong, Jung Hyun Noh, Dong-Jun Kim*
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Department of Internal Medicine, Ilsan-Paik Hospital, College of Medicine, Inje University, Koyang, Gyeonggido, Republic of Korea * [email protected]
Abstract Background OPEN ACCESS Citation: Hong JW, Noh JH, Kim D-J (2017) The prevalence of and factors associated with high-risk alcohol consumption in Korean adults: The 2009– 2011 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. PLoS ONE 12(4): e0175299. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175299 Editor: Wenke Feng, University of Louisville School of Medicine, UNITED STATES
The consequences of alcohol consumption on health outcomes are largely determined by two separate, but related, dimensions of drinking: the total volume of alcohol consumed and the pattern of drinking. Most epidemiological studies focus on the amount of alcohol consumed and do not consider the pattern of drinking.
Objectives This study evaluated the prevalence of and factors associated with high-risk and heavy alcohol drinking in Korean adults.
Received: December 20, 2016 Accepted: March 23, 2017
Methods
Published: April 6, 2017
This study analyzed 15,215 of the 28,009 participants in the 2009–2011 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES). High-risk alcohol drinking was defined as Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) scores 16, which provides a framework for intervention to identify hazardous and harmful drinking patterns as the cause of alcohol-use disorders, according to World Health Organization guidelines.
Copyright: © 2017 Hong et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: Readers can access the dataset by registering an account with the Korean CDC website (https://knhanes.cdc.go.kr/ knhanes/index.do). There is a blue bar on the top of the website. Click the third menu, written in Korean, “원시자료” (The content about the raw data) on the blue bar. There is a second submenu below the blue bar, written in Korean “원시자료 다운로드 (Download the raw data)”. Once readers click this, an e-mail address for log-in is required. Once logged in, readers can download the raw data from 1998-2012 Korea National Health and Nutrition
Results The prevalence of high-risk drinking was 15.1%, with the highest prevalence of 17.2% in middle-aged adults (45–64 years). In men, the prevalence of high-risk alcohol drinking was 23.7%, with the highest prevalence found in middle-aged adults. In women, the prevalence of high-risk alcohol drinking was 4.2%, with the highest prevalence found in younger adults. Men had higher weighted mean AUDIT scores than women (10.0 vs. 4.0, P
