Table 3.
Drinking among contraindicated medication users by selected demographic and health characteristics, Puerto Rican adults (n 687) aged 45–75 years from the Boston Puerto Rican Health Study (BPRHS) cohort, 2004–2009
| Drinks alcohol
|
P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| % | n | ||
| Gender | 0·010 | ||
| Female | 32·8 | 172 | |
| Male | 44·2 | 68 | |
| Education level | 0·183 | ||
| Elementary/middle | 31·9 | 101 | |
| High school | 37·5 | 99 | |
| Post-secondary | 40·6 | 39 | |
| Marital status | 0·798 | ||
| Unmarried | 35·2 | 173 | |
| Married | 36·2 | 67 | |
| Employment | 0·047 | ||
| Employed | 50·0 | 26 | |
| Unemployed | 36·1 | 193 | |
| Language preference | 0·000 | ||
| English | 60·5 | 26 | |
| Spanish | 35·6 | 176 | |
| Both equally | 27·3 | 36 | |
| Diabetes status | 0·019 | ||
| No diabetes | 39·0 | 144 | |
| Diabetes | 30·2 | 88 | |
| Depressive symptomology† | 0·330 | ||
| No | 38·6 | 64 | |
| Yes | 34·4 | 174 | |
| Overweight‡ | 0·894 | ||
| Yes | 35·3 | 214 | |
| No | 36·1 | 26 | |
| Living situation | 0·664 | ||
| Lives alone | 34·4 | 88 | |
| Lives with someone else | 36·0 | 152 | |
| Hypertension | 0·457 | ||
| Yes | 34·5 | 156 | |
| No | 37·4 | 82 | |
†
CES-D score ≥16 (Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, ten item) is considered as depressive symptomology.
‡
BMI ≥25 kg/m2.