{"id":6539,"date":"2022-08-19T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6539"},"modified":"2022-08-19T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T15:30:00","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-%e2%89%a565-years-who-drank-four-or-more-alcoholic-drinks-per-week-by-sex-and-age-national-health-interview-survey-united-states-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/08\/19\/6539\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats:\u00a0Percentage of Adults Aged \u226565 Years Who Drank Four or More Alcoholic Drinks Per Week,\u00a0by Sex and Age \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwdev.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/figures\/mm7133a5-F.gif?_=53412\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"335\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, 18.3% of adults aged \u226565 years reported drinking four or more alcoholic drinks per week. Among adults aged \u226565 years, men were more likely (25.6%) than women (12.4%) to have four or more drinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Percentages of those having four or more drinks were higher among men than women for the following age groups: 65\u201374 years (27.7% versus 13.4%), 75\u201384 years (23.6% versus 12.1%) and \u226585 years (17.6% versus 8.1%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among both men and women, the percentage of adults aged \u226565 years who drank four or more alcoholic drinks per week decreased as age increased, from 20.0% for those aged 65\u201374 years to 11.8% for those aged \u226585 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0National Health Interview Survey, 2020.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7133a5.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7133a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, 18.3% of adults aged \u226565 years reported drinking four or more alcoholic drinks per week. Among adults aged \u226565 years, men were more likely (25.6%) than women (12.4%) to have four or more drinks. Percentages of those having four or more drinks were higher among men than women for the following age groups:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32518,53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539"}],"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=6539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}