[Relationship between flushing response and drinking behavior].
Shipyard employees and their spouses in Kawasaki were surveyed twice as subjects on the relationship between flushing response and drinking behavior. Data obtained from 1,463 respondents of the two surveys, are used for the analysis. Flushing responses were classified into five types according to the amount of absolute alcohol which induced flushing; fast flushing (FF), medium flushing (MF), slow flushing (SF), no flushing (NF) and unknown. A distribution of the flushing types in males did not show statistical differences among native places and age groups, but among jobs. The distribution in females was not statistically different among native places and jobs, but among age groups. A large number of drinkers who frequently drank belonged to NF and SF. Those who belonged to NF and SF drank every day during the surveyed period (for 1 week). Most of drinkers who drank two kinds and more alcoholic beverages at a chance of drinking belonged to SF and NF. The alcohol consumption during the surveyed period ranged in due to order among males as: FF less than MF less than unknown less than SF less than NF, and among females as: unknown less than FF less than MF less than SF and NF. The results analyzed by "Hayashi's quantification scaling type I" showed that the drinking frequency and the most favorite alcoholic beverage much contributed to the alcohol consumption, but the flushing type didn't so much. However, it made the fact clear that NF contributed to increase alcohol consumption, and unknown and FF did to decrease alcohol consumption.
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Sasaki
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Aoyama
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D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005483:Flushing / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged