Alcohol consumption and employment: a cross-sectional study of office workers and unemployed people.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alcohol is a psychoactive substance with toxic and addictive properties. Biomarkers like GGT, AST, ALT and MCV are influenced by excessive ethanol consumption. Alcohol consumption represents a health risk and it has been linked to unemployment. The aim of this study how working status predict alcohol consumption through a cross sectional study comparing alcohol-related biomarkers levels in office workers and unemployed people.

Methods

This study includes 157 office workers and 157 unemployed people, who were recruited from January to December 2018. A propensity score matching procedure was applied to obtain two homogenous groups in terms of age and gender. A non-parametric analysis was performed on serum biomarkers that are generally altered by alcohol consumption

SUBMITTER: De Sio S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7100587 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature