IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v18y2021i12p6433-d574664.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Association of Alcohol Drinking Patterns with Metabolic Syndrome and Its Components in Korean Adults: The Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2016–2018

Author

Listed:
  • Seung Won Lee

    (Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, Korea University, Sejong 30019, Korea)

  • Sung-In Jang

    (Department of Preventive Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 03722, Korea)

Abstract

This study examined the association of alcohol drinking patterns with metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components in a nationally representative sample of South Korean adults. The cross-sectional study included 12,830 current drinkers (6438 men and 6392 women) who were at least 20 years old. Measures of alcohol drinking patterns included average drinking frequency, usual quantity, and binge drinking frequency over the past year. Multivariate logistic regression was performed to estimate odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for MetS and its components according to alcohol drinking patterns, and also to examine linear trends in these relationships. The prevalence of MetS was 1822 (26.2%) in men and 1313 (17.5%) in women. After adjusting for potential confounding factors, drinking quantity and binge drinking frequency were positively associated with MetS in both sexes. Regarding components of MetS, while the risk of low HDL cholesterol decreased as drinking frequency increased, other MetS components (abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, and impaired fasting glucose) worsened. Our results suggest that separate management of each component of MetS will be required to protect cardio-metabolic health, and a healthy drinking culture that refrains from binge drinking should be established in the context of public health.

Suggested Citation

  • Seung Won Lee & Sung-In Jang, 2021. "Association of Alcohol Drinking Patterns with Metabolic Syndrome and Its Components in Korean Adults: The Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2016–2018," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(12), pages 1-13, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:12:p:6433-:d:574664
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/12/6433/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/12/6433/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Miharu Tamaoki & Ikumi Honda & Keisuke Nakanishi & Maki Nakajima & Sophathya Cheam & Manabu Okawada & Hisataka Sakakibara, 2022. "Lifestyle Factors Associated with Metabolic Syndrome in Urban Cambodia," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(17), pages 1-11, August.
    2. Eun Jung Park & Hye Jung Shin & Sung Soo Kim & Ki Eun Kim & Sun Hyun Kim & Youl Ri Kim & Kyong Mee Chung & Kyung Do Han, 2022. "The Effect of Alcohol Drinking on Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity in Koreans: Big Data Analysis," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(9), pages 1-11, April.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:12:p:6433-:d:574664. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.