Alcohol Consumption, Beverage Preference, and Diet in Middle-Aged Men from the STANISLAS Study
Table 1
Characteristics of the sample of 423 adult males according to alcohol consumption and beverage preferencea.
Alcohol intakes (g/day)
Beverage preference
0–2
3–22
23–44
44–112
P valueb
Wine
Beer
Spirits
valueb
Alcohol (g/d)
—
≤0.001
From wine (%)
—c
0.009
—
From beer (%)
—
0.022
—
From spirits (%)
—
0.476
—
Age (y)
0.509
0.024
Body mass index (kg/m2)
0.206
0.021
Cigarette (cig/day)d
0.002
0.506
Smoking behavior (%)
Nonsmokers
49.5
38.1
29.6
15.6
32.4
35.5
17.4
Smokers
18.3
28.0
36.7
42.2
≤0.001
32.5
35.5
30.4
0.413
Ex-smokers
32.2
33.9
33.7
42.2
35.1
29.0
52.2
Education (%)
Primary school
57.0
51.8
47.0
51.6
47.5
71.0
52.2
Secondary school
25.8
25.6
31.6
28.1
0.840
30.6
12.9
13.0
0.036
University
17.2
22.6
21.4
20.3
21.9
16.1
34.8
aMean ± SD or percent.
bANOVA for continuous variables (except for cigarette smoking) or Chi-square test for categorical variables.
cNot relevant, dKruskal-Wallis test.