{"id":995,"date":"2010-03-17T13:33:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=995"},"modified":"2010-03-17T13:33:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:33:51","slug":"who-will-be-drinking-on-st-pattys-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2010\/03\/17\/995\/","title":{"rendered":"Who will be drinking on St. Patty&#8217;s Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who will have whiskey in the jar on one of the most popular drinking days of the year? Well, on average, \u00a0men are\u00a0more likely than women to be current drinkers\u00a0(68% compared with 55%).\u00a0Men are also more likely to be moderate (22%)\u00a0or heavy drinkers (6%) than women (7%\u00a0and 4%, respectively). Youth also contributes to heavier drinking:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/drinking2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1006\" title=\"Percentage of adults who had five or more drinks in 1 day at least once in past year, by age and sex: United States, 2005-2007\" src=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/drinking2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other indicators:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>White men and women\u00a0are more likely to be current drinkers than other races, and non-Hispanic adults\u00a0are more likely than Hispanic adults to be\u00a0drinkers.<\/li>\n<li>Current drinkers increase with education from 44% for adults with less than a high school diploma to 74% for adults with a graduate degree.<\/li>\n<li>The prevalence of current drinking increases dramatically with family income.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more, visit the new report on adult health behaviors at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/series\/sr_10\/sr10_245.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/series\/sr_10\/sr10_245.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who will have whiskey in the jar on one of the most popular drinking days of the year? Well, on average, \u00a0men are\u00a0more likely than women to be current drinkers\u00a0(68% compared with 55%).\u00a0Men are also more likely to be moderate (22%)\u00a0or heavy drinkers (6%) than women (7%\u00a0and 4%, respectively). Youth also contributes to heavier drinking:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62319,63685,53746],"tags":[32518,64007,64008,64100,64306,64307],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995"}],"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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}