Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health

The Korean Society for Preventive Medicine (대한예방의학회)
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Type of Alcoholic Beverage and High Risk Drinking for Acute Harm

음주 주종과 급성 위해 유발 음주 위험도

  • Yoo, Tai-Woo (Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine. Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Sun-Mi (Department of Public Health, Graduate School, Yonsei University) ;
  • Chung, Woo-Jin (Department of Health Policy and Management, Graduate School of Public Health and Institute of Health Services Research, Yonsei University)
  • 유태우 (서울대학교 의과대학 가정의학교실) ;
  • 이선미 (연세대학교 대학원 보건학과) ;
  • 정우진 (연세대학교 보건대학원 및 보건정책 및 관리연구소)
  • Published : 2003.12.01
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Abstract

Objective : Studies have suggested that beer is associated with a high risk of mortality and morbidity. The purpose of this study was to investigate how types of alcoholic beverage are related to high risk acute harm. Methods : Data from the 1997 Korea's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey, collected through telephone questionings, were analyzed based on multi-stage stratified random sampling(N=1,045). Among those who had drunk at least one type of alcoholic beverage in the last month, one episode where the drinker had consumed the highest level of ethanol was selected, and the alcohol consumption per drinking day categorized into four risk levels of short-term, 'acute' harm, according to the WHO guidelines. Employing ordered logistic regression analyses, as the explanatory variables, types of alcoholic beverage, with and without socioeconomic characteristics, were considered. Results : Spirits and soju were more than ten and three times, respectively, more likely than beer, while makkolli and wine were almost as likely as beer, to involve high risk drinking, irrespective of controlling for the socioeconomic characteristics. Conclusions : Unlike most Western countries, in Korea, beer, rather than spirits or soju, is generally less likely to be associated with high risk drinking for acute harm, The influence of beverage types on high risk drinking for acute harm appears to vary between countries.

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