HealthDay Information — The prevalence of present alcohol use, binge consuming, and heavy consuming elevated amongst pregnant U.S. ladies from a low in 2011, in accordance with a examine printed on-line July 27 within the Journal of the American Medical Affiliation.
Emilie Bruzelius, Ph.D., from the Columbia College Mailman Faculty of Public Well being in New York Metropolis, and colleagues examined tendencies in alcohol consumption throughout being pregnant utilizing information from 33,729 pregnant U.S. adults (aged 18 to 49 years) recognized from the Behavioral Danger Issue Surveillance System (2011 to 2024).
The researchers discovered that the adjusted prevalence of present alcohol use elevated from a low of 9.1 p.c in 2011-2012 to a excessive of 15.2 p.c in 2021-2022, earlier than lowering barely to 14.5 p.c in 2023-2024 (prevalence ratio, 1.59). Comparable patterns had been seen for binge and heavy consuming. Present alcohol use was commonest amongst those that had been older (18.2 p.c), faculty graduates (14.7 p.c), not married/partnered (18.0 p.c), and employed (15.0 p.c). Tobacco use and frequent psychological misery (≥14 past-month poor psychological well being days) had been every related to the next prevalence of any present alcohol use (26.3 versus 11.3 p.c and 22.8 versus 11.1 p.c, respectively). Tobacco use was strongly related to binge or heavy consuming.
“Once we adjusted for long-term tendencies utilizing statistical fashions, we discovered that every successive two-year interval was related to increased odds of present alcohol use, binge consuming, and heavy consuming throughout the previous month,” Bruzelius stated in a press release. “These findings point out statistically important will increase throughout the examine interval.”
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