Annual Total Binge Drinks Consumed by U.S. Adults, 2015.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Binge drinking (four or more drinks for women, five or more drinks for men on an occasion) accounts for more than half of the 88,000 U.S. deaths resulting from excessive drinking annually. Adult binge drinkers do so frequently and at high intensity; however, there are known disparities in binge drinking that are not well characterized by any single binge-drinking measure. A new measure of total annual binge drinks was used to assess these disparities at the state and national levels.

Methods

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2015 data (analyzed in 2016) were used to estimate the prevalence, frequency, intensity, and total binge drinks among U.S. adults. Total annual binge drinks was calculated by multiplying annual binge-drinking episodes by binge-drink

SUBMITTER: Kanny D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6075714 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature