[An analysis of the sociodemographic context of alcohol use in the Czech adult population from the health perspective].
BACKGROUND
WHO 2002 Report finds alcohol use to have mostly detrimental effects on the human health, only some patterns of use being beneficial. This study analyzes patterns of alcohol use in the Czech adult population according to region, urbanization, gender, age, and education.


RESULTS
A sample of 1224 men and 1282 women (aged 18-64), representative for the Czech population of this age, was interviewed. Frequencies of beer, wine and spirit use, usual quantities per occasion, and the frequency of consuming >/= 75 g alcohol at a single occasion were ascertained. Results showed that 33% men and 14% women consume alcohol in a way hazardous for health, i.e. with a daily average > 40 g (men), > 20 g (women), or with periodic use of >/= 75 g at a single occasion. Only 6% men and 2% women adhere to a consumption pattern with supposed cardio-protective effects, i.e. at least each other day, in low/moderate quantity and without periodic binges. The health risk form of use in men is age related with the climax at 35-44 (p<0.001) and with a linear decreases with educational level (p<0.001). No statistically significant relation between the unhealthy alcohol use and age or the education level was found in women.


CONCLUSIONS
In the Czech adult male and female population patterns of the health-risky or problematic alcohol use heavily overweight patterns with hypothetical beneficial effects, with no exception across sociodemographic strata.
Kubicka
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Psychiatrické centrum Praha. kubicka@pcp.lf3.cuni.cz
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D018153:Czech Republic / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
Analýza sociodemografického kontextu pozívání alkoholických nápojů v dospĕlé populaci Ceské republiky z hlediska zdravotního.