Sentences with phrase «among heavy drinkers»

There is a substantial mortality risk among heavy drinkers.

Long sleep duration was more common among heavy drinkers, but only in black men and white women.

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It is noteworthy that the Mulford study figures, cited above, showed that heavy drinkers were four times as prevalent among male as among female drinkers.

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Casey was also a heavy drinker, a common failing among ballplayers of his day.

Among those who have had the highest relative benefit from high fruit and veggie intake were smokers and heavy drinkers.

Incomplete PD case ascertainment among heavy coffee drinkers could also lead to an apparent protective effect of coffee drinking if heavy coffee intake were associated with not participating in follow - up examinations.

In a 2014 University of Buffalo study, researchers found that among couples in which one person was a heavy drinker and the other wasn't, 45 to 55 % got divorced before their 10th anniversary.

We also observed a reduction of 26 % in the risk of endometrial cancer among coffee drinkers, compared with nondrinkers, and of > 30 % among heavy coffee drinkers.

Among battered women, 40 percent to 60 percent report that their husbands are heavy drinkers, and the CDC suggests that 35 percent of domestic violence is at the hands of a person under the influence of alcohol.

Although previous research on younger couples revealed that discordant heavy drinking (rather than only drinking status) is associated with lower marital satisfaction and divorce (Leonard et al., 2014; Mudar et al., 2001), the present study contributes to the literature by showing that concordance on drinking status (i.e., drinker vs. no drinker) appears to be more important for negative marital relationship quality among older couples than frequency or quantity of consumption.

Torvik and colleagues examined couples aged 20 and older in Norway and found that concordant abstainers and concordant heavy drinkers (e.g., drinking 10 or more times over 2 weeks and endorsed at least one indicator of hazardous drinking) had lower divorce rates, but that among discordant drinkers, heavy drinking only among wives was a stronger predictor of divorce than heavy drinking only among husbands (Torvik, Røysamb, Gustavson, Idstad, & Tambs, 2013).