@article{ref1,
title="Alcohol consumption, type A behavior, and demographic variables. Results from the Normative Aging Study",
journal="American journal of epidemiology",
year="1988",
author="Glynn, R. J. and de Labry, L. O. and Hou, D. M.",
volume="127",
number="2",
pages="310-320",
abstract="This study describes the relations of patterns of alcohol consumption with Type A behavior, age, retirement, marital status, and socioeconomic status among male participants in the Veterans Administration Normative Aging Study. In April 1984, 1,663 men completed form N of the Jenkins Activity Survey; in September 1982, 1,556 of these men had responded to a mailed survey of drinking behaviors. When age, marital status, socioeconomic status, and retirement status were controlled for, Type A score was virtually unrelated to the probability of being a nondrinker, having three or more drinks per day, problems with drinking, and periodic heavier drinking. Three other measures from the Jenkins Activity Survey--speed and impatience, hard-driving and competitive, and involvement--also had little association with these drinking behaviors. Moderate drinking was found to be strongly associated with higher socioeconomic status and being married. <br><br>RESULTS suggest that socioeconomic status and possibly marital status, but not Type A behavior and retirement, may influence the relation of drinking with the development of coronary heart disease.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0002-9262",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}