{"id":2656,"date":"2015-02-23T17:51:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T20:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2015-02-23T17:51:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T20:51:21","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-men-aged-25-74-years-who-consume-15-or-more-alcoholic-drinks-per-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2015\/02\/23\/2656\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Men Aged 25\u201374 Years Who Consume 15 or More Alcoholic Drinks Per Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6406a10.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/figures\/m6406qsf.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During 2011\u20132013, male veterans aged 25\u201374 years were more likely to consume an average of 15 or more\u00a0alcoholic drinks per week in the last year (&#8220;heavy drinking&#8221;) compared with nonveterans (7% versus 5%).<\/p>\n<p>Among men aged 25\u201334 years, the proportion of veterans who were heavy drinkers was 9%, higher than the 6% observed in nonveterans. Similarly, veterans were more likely than nonveterans to be heavy drinkers among men aged 55\u201364 years (7% versus 5%) and men aged 65\u201374 years (7% versus 4%).<\/p>\n<p>There was no significant difference in the proportion of veterans compared with nonveterans who were heavy drinkers among men aged 35\u201344 years or men aged 45\u201354 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6406a10.htm\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6406a10.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2011\u20132013, male veterans aged 25\u201374 years were more likely to consume an average of 15 or more\u00a0alcoholic drinks per week in the last year (&#8220;heavy drinking&#8221;) compared with nonveterans (7% versus 5%). Among men aged 25\u201334 years, the proportion of veterans who were heavy drinkers was 9%, higher than the 6% observed in nonveterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53746],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}