Table 1.

Clinical and biochemical characteristics of 26,006 participants classified according to alcohol intake status before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake.

	Non-drinkers			Light drinkers			Moderate/Heavy drinkers
	Before	After	p-Value	Before	After	p-Value	Before	After	p-Value
Number	8914			12,644			4448
Sex, male/female	1894/7020			5623/7021			4198/250
Age, years	68.1 (9.1)	69.6 (9.1)		65.7 (9.4)	67.2 (9.4)		64.6 (8.9)	66.1 (8.8)
Body weight, kg	53.9 (9.7)	54.4 (9.9)	<0.001	57.2 (9.9)	57.8 (10.1)	<0.001	62.7 (9.4)	63.7 (9.7)	<0.001
BMI, kg/m2	23.4 (3.4)	23.7 (3.5)	<0.001	23.4 (3.2)	23.7 (3.3)	<0.001	23.6 (2.9)	24.0 (3.0)	<0.001
Overweight: BMI ≥25, %	30.1	33.3	<0.001	28.4	32.6	<0.001	30.13	35.25	<0.001
Hypertension, %	55.4	60.8	<0.001	50.6	56.3	<0.001	60.81	67.65	<0.001
Smoking, %	6.5	5.5	<0.001	10.8	9.4	<0.001	31.4	27.5	<0.001
Dyslipidemia, %	28.9	32.7	<0.001	23.6	27.45	<0.001	14.0	17.6	<0.001
Diabetes, %	9.4	10.4	<0.001	8.0	9.29	<0.001	8.8	11.0	<0.001
AST, IU/La	23 (19–26)	23 (19–27)	<0.001	23 (19–27)	23 (20–27)	<0.001	25 (22–30)	26 (22–31)	<0.001
ALT, IU/La	17 (13–22)	17 (13–23)	<0.001	17 (14–23)	18 (14–24)	<0.001	20 (15–27)	21 (16–29)	<0.001
γ-GTP, IU/La	18 (14–25)	18 (14–27)	<0.001	21 (16–31)	22 (16–33)	<0.001	40 (27–67)	42 (27–71)	<0.001
Liver dysfunction, %	9.0	11.7	<0.001	12.9	15.5	<0.001	41.2	44.6	<0.001

AST, aspartate aminotransferase; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; BMI, body mass index; γ-GTP, gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase.

Data are mean values (standard deviation) for continuous variables and percentage values for categorical variables, unless otherwise noted.

^aReported as median (interquartile range).