Table 3.
Weighted prevalence of heavy drinking and annual percentage change (APC) overall and by age group, sex, and race/ethnicity: NHANES 1999–2020.
| Population | Cases | Weighted prevalence | Joinpoint segmenta |
APC (95% CI) | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year start | Year end | |||||
| Overall | ||||||
| Healthy weight | 1202 | 10.4 (9.6, 11.2) | 1999 | 2017 | 0.09 (−1.16, 1.35) | 0.88 |
| Overweight | 1232 | 9.2 (8.6, 9.9) | 1999 | 2017 | 0.25 (−1.40, 1.92) | 0.74 |
| Obese | 1039 | 6.4 (5.9, 6.9) | 1999 | 2017 | 1.93 (0.37, 3.52) | 0.02 |
| Age-groups | ||||||
| 18–39 | ||||||
| Healthy weight | 497 | 9.5 (8.5, 10.7) | 1999 | 2017 | −1.04 (−2.79, 0.74) | 0.21 |
| Overweight | 419 | 10.1 (9.1, 11.2) | 1999 | 2017 | −1.11 (−2.78, 0.58) | 0.17 |
| Obese | 374 | 7.1 (6.3, 8.0) | 1999 | 2017 | 0.14 (−3.61, 4.03) | 0.94 |
| 40–59 | ||||||
| Healthy weight | 425 | 13.4 (11.8, 15.3) | 1999 | 2017 | 1.06 (−0.91, 3.06) | 0.25 |
| Overweight | 489 | 10.3 (9.2, 11.5) | 1999 | 2017 | 0.81 (−1.03, 2.69) | 0.34 |
| Obeseb | 422 | 7.0 (6.1, 8.0) | 1999 | 2005 | −10.52 (−28.23, 11.57) | 0.25 |
| 2005 | 2017 | 7.21 (1.62, 13.11) | 0.02 | |||
| ≥60 | ||||||
| Healthy weight | 280 | 7.7 (6.6, 9.0) | 1999 | 2017 | 4.06 (−0.04, 8.32) | 0.05 |
| Overweight | 324 | 6.6 (5.7, 7.7) | 1999 | 2017 | 2.02 (−1.62, 5.80) | 0.24 |
| Obese | 243 | 4.6 (3.7, 5.6) | 1999 | 2017 | 2.69 (−0.53, 6.02) | 0.09 |
| Sex | ||||||
| Men | ||||||
| Healthy weight | 673 | 11.6 (10.6, 12.7) | 1999 | 2017 | −0.47 (−2.04, 1.12) | 0.51 |
| Overweight | 835 | 10.5 (9.7, 11.5) | 1999 | 2017 | −0.39 (−2.96, 2.26) | 0.74 |
| Obese | 639 | 8.3 (7.5, 9.1) | 1999 | 2017 | 0.59 (−1.18, 2.39) | 0.46 |
| Women | ||||||
| Healthy weight | 529 | 9.4 (8.4, 10.6) | 1999 | 2017 | 0.85 (−0.44, 2.15) | 0.17 |
| Overweight | 397 | 7.5 (6.5, 8.5) | 1999 | 2017 | 1.82 (−0.80, 4.51) | 0.15 |
| Obese | 400 | 4.7 (4.1, 5.4) | 1999 | 2017 | 2.62 (0.46, 4.82) | 0.02 |
| Race/Ethnicity | ||||||
| NHWc | ||||||
| Healthy weight | 699 | 11.8 (10.8, 13.0) | 1999 | 2017 | 0.09 (−1.16, 1.35) | 0.88 |
| Overweight | 694 | 10.4 (9.6, 11.4) | 1999 | 2017 | 0.25 (−1.40, 1.92) | 0.74 |
| Obese | 460 | 6.7 (6.1, 7.4) | 1999 | 2017 | 1.93 (0.36, 3.53) | 0.02 |
| NHBd | ||||||
| Healthy weight | 250 | 9.6 (8.5, 10.8) | 1999 | 2017 | 0.82 (−2.86, 4.63) | 0.63 |
| Overweight | 211 | 7.2 (6.2, 8.3) | 1999 | 2017 | 1.34 (−2.30, 5.11) | 0.43 |
| Obese | 271 | 5.7 (4.9, 6.5) | 1999 | 2017 | 2.20 (−0.12, 4.56) | 0.06 |
| Hispanics | ||||||
| Healthy weight | 163 | 6.2 (5.2, 7.3) | 1999 | 2017 | −3.20 (−5.61, −0.73) | 0.02 |
| Overweight | 263 | 6.1 (5.3, 7.0) | 1999 | 2017 | 1.50 (−2.51, 5.69) | 0.42 |
| Obese | 257 | 5.7 (5.0, 6.5) | 1999 | 2017 | −0.08 (−4.47, 4.52) | 0.97 |
a
Survey periods are represented by first year e.g., Year-start 1999 (1999–2000 Survey Cycle) and Year-end 2017 (2017–2020 Survey Cycle).
b
Average annual percentage change (AAPC) for obese heavy drinkers aged 40–59-year-old: 0.55% (95% CI: −0.25%, 1.35%).
c
Non-Hispanic White.
d
Non-Hispanic Black.