Table 1. Characteristics of subjects according to alcohol categories.

	Men							Women
	Never drinkers	Past drinkers	Current drinkers (g alcohol / day)					Never drinkers	Past drinkers	Current drinkers (g alcohol / day)
			All	<22.8	22.8 - 45.5	45.6 - 68.3	≥68.4			All	<22.8	≥22.8
No. of subjects	3,276	1,448	15,936	4,821	3,820	4,576	2,719	13,283	740	4,393	3,837	556
Mean age (SD)	52.3 (7.7)	54.5 (7.3)	51.0 (7.5)	50.6 (7.6)	51.5 (7.7)	51.6 (7.5)	50.2 (7.0)	52.4 (7.4)	51.5 (7.4)	49.1 (7.1)	49.0 (7.1)	49.5 (6.9)
Body Mass Index (%)
≤18.5	2.6	3.3	1.8	1.6	1.7	1.8	2.1	2.8	3.9	2.6	2.6	2.6
18.5-24.9	71.0	68.0	70.6	69.6	71.0	71.9	69.9	66.1	64.2	68.9	68.9	68.5
25.0≤	26.4	28.8	27.6	28.8	27.3	26.4	28.0	31.1	31.9	28.5	28.5	28.8
Education (%)
≤15	44.0	50.0	39.1	37.3	37.0	40.8	40.2	39.4	43.3	33.8	33.0	39.0
16-18	42.9	38.6	46.3	45.9	48.4	45.5	46.3	47.4	45.3	50.7	51.0	48.3
19≤	13.1	11.4	14.6	16.8	14.6	13.7	13.6	13.2	11.4	15.5	15.9	12.6
Living with spouse (%)
Yes	90.6	91.0	93.1	92.5	93.4	93.9	92.7	87.6	83.0	86.7	87.1	83.4
No	9.4	9.0	6.9	7.5	6.6	6.1	7.3	12.4	17.0	13.3	12.9	16.6
Past history (%)
Hypertension	10.8	23.6	18.7	13.9	19.4	20.5	23.0	20.0	22.4	16.6	16.0	21.2
Renal diseases	2.9	5.6	2.9	3.2	2.8	2.6	3.3	3.8	5.7	4.5	4.5	4.1
Liver diseases	4.5	15.2	6.0	4.9	5.7	5.8	8.9	3.5	6.8	3.3	3.1	4.7
Diabetes mellitus	4.5	9.8	4.9	4.5	4.4	4.4	7.1	3.1	5.3	1.9	2.0	1.3
Peptic ulcers	20.3	26.5	19.9	20.3	20.6	19.5	18.8	9.1	14.7	10.4	10.3	11.3
Tuberculosis	3.4	4.4	2.9	2.7	3.2	3.0	2.6	2.3	3.2	3.0	2.9	3.4
Green vegetables (%)
<1-2 tinies/montli	16.0	16.5	14.8	14.2	13.2	15.0	17.9	7.9	13.8	9.1	8.6	12.6
1-2 times/week	35.8	31.4	35.3	35.0	34.3	35.7	36.7	28.3	30.2	32.8	33.0	31.7
3-4 times/week	28.4	30.6	29.8	30.4	31.5	29.1	27.6	36.3	32.4	35.1	35.3	33.5
Everyday	19.8	21.5	20.0	20.4	20.9	20.2	17.8	27.5	23.6	23.0	23.1	22.2
Oranges (%)
<1-2 tinies/montli	25.3	27.9	30.8	25.4	28.9	34.1	37.6	14.8	20.6	16.8	15.0	29.3
1-2 times/week	28.2	29.6	30.2	29.3	31.5	30.3	29.7	19.5	22.4	22.2	22.5	20.5
3-4 times/week	23.3	23.6	22.6	24.8	22.4	22.1	19.7	27.5	28.0	26.6	26.6	26.6
Everyday	23.2	18.9	16.5	20.5	17.3	13.6	12.9	38.3	29.0	34.4	35.9	23.6
Smoking status (%)
Never	27.5	14.2	18.1	26.5	18.7	13.6	9.9	95.2	59.5	78.8	82.9	51.0
Past	15.0	29.9	20.1	21.3	21.8	20.4	15.2	0.9	11.7	3.6	3.2	6.1
1-19 cigarrets/day	13.2	16.4	15.7	16.3	16.8	15.4	13.3	2.8	18.8	12.3	10.6	24.1
20< cigarrets/day	43.3	39.6	46.1	35.9	42.8	50.6	61.6	1.1	10.0	5.2	3.2	18.8
Walking (%)
1 hr/day≤	45.7	44.5	45.6	43.4	45.2	46.8	47.0	45.3	41.8	42.8	42.2	40.1
<1 hr/day	54.3	55.5	54.5	56.6	54.8	53.2	53.0	54.7	58.2	57.2	57.8	59.9

SD: standard deviation.