A brand new research of consuming patterns throughout Europe from 2000 to 2019 exhibits that consuming happens in secure, beverage-specific clusters that appear to be partly decided by geography. The research was printed at the moment by the scientific journal Habit.
The research recognized six consuming patterns in Europe in 2019:
Wine-drinking international locations: France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Sweden. Characterised by the very best consumption of wine, lowest consumption of beer and spirits, and lowest total alcohol consumption.
Excessive beer/low spirit consuming international locations: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, and Spain. Characterised by excessive consumption of beer, comparatively low consumption of spirits, and the very best consumption overseas.
Excessive beer/binge consuming international locations: Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. Characterised by excessive total alcohol consumption, with the very best consumption of beer and excessive prevalence of heavy episodic consuming.
Excessive spirit consuming international locations: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Characterised by the very best consumption of spirits but additionally excessive beer consumption, ensuing within the highest total alcohol consumption, however lowest wine consumption and low binge consuming—as a substitute of normal excessive consumption.
Excessive spirit consuming/excessive lifetime abstinence international locations: Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Cyprus. Characterised by the bottom prevalence of drinkers (and highest prevalence of lifetime abstainers), however excessive and common consumption of spirits.
International locations with excessive prevalence of present and binge consuming: Finland, Iceland, Eire, Luxembourg, and Malta. Characterised by the very best prevalence of drinkers and binge consuming.
Trying again virtually 20 years, the identical total clusters had been in place from 2000 to 2019, with two-thirds of the international locations staying in the identical cluster for all measurements.
The research discovered vital associations between consuming patterns and alcohol-attributable deaths and well being hurt (measured by way of ‘disability-adjusted life years’: the variety of years misplaced attributable to ill-health, incapacity, or early loss of life). International locations with excessive consumption of spirits and/or excessive prevalence of binge consuming—Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Cyprus—had the very best common alcohol-attributable deaths and well being hurt.
Co-author Dr. Jürgen Rehm feedback, “Europe’s distinct consuming patterns appear to be deeply rooted in tradition and are subsequently troublesome to vary. Since consuming patterns are strongly related to burden of illness and mortality, we should discover methods to vary the patterns which characterize the clusters with the very best alcohol-attributable burden. Alcohol insurance policies for this alteration can be found and needs to be thought-about by all European international locations, as the general stage of consuming remains to be excessive on this area.”
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Classifying nationwide consuming patterns in Europe between 2000 and 2019: A clustering strategy utilizing comparable publicity knowledge, Habit (2024). DOI: 10.1111/add.16567
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