Table 3.

The association between drinking habits score (DHS) and all-cause mortality and cause specific mortality.

	Drinking habits score (DHS)
All-cause mortality	0	1	2	P-trend
No, death	1,927	4,722	2003
Model 1 (HR, 95%, CI)	1 (reference)	1.03 (0.97–1.09)	0.87 (0.81–0.92)	<0.001
Model 1+alcohol intake level (HR, 95%, CI)	1 (reference)	0.96 (0.90–1.01)	0.82 (0.76–0.88)	<0.001
CVD mortality	0	1	2	P-trend
No, death	403	946	353
Model 1 (HR, 95%, CI)	1 (reference)	1.01 (0.90–1.14)	0.82 (0.71–0.95)	0.010
Model 1+alcohol intake level (HR, 95%, CI)	1 (reference)	1.00 (0.88–1.14)	0.84 (0.72–0.99)	0.032
CA mortality	0	1	2	P-trend
No, death	1,079	2,645	1,236
Model 1 (HR, 95%, CI)	1 (reference)	1.02 (0.95–1.09)	0.91 (0.84–0.99)	0.021
Model 1+alcohol intake level (HR, 95%, CI)	1 (reference)	0.92 (0.85–0.99)	0.82 (0.75–0.90)	<0.001
Other reason	0	1	2	P-trend
No, death	445	1131	414
Model 1 (HR, 95%, CI)	1 (reference)	1.07 (0.96–1.20)	0.79 (0.69–0.90)	<0.001
Model 1+ alcohol intake level (HR, 95%, CI)	1 (reference)	1.01 (0.90–1.14)	0.77 (0.67–0.90)	<0.001

Model 1 adjusted for age, sex, race, assessment centres, BMI, physical activity, smoking (never, past, current), healthy diet, Townsend deprivation index, diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol.

Model 2 further adjusted alcohol intake level on the basis of model 1.