Epidemiologic study of alcoholics in a hospital for alcoholics in Ube area
山口医学 Volume 39 Issue 4
Page 533-538
published_at 1990-08
Title
アルコール依存症の社会的背景と合併症について
Epidemiologic study of alcoholics in a hospital for alcoholics in Ube area
Creators
Arita Jiro
Creators
Ogino Keiki
Creators
Hashimoto Takashi
Creators
Kamimura Teruo
Creators
Nagasaki Tetsuo
Source Identifiers
In order to examine the present situation of alcoholics in Ube Area, we submitted to 120 male alcoholics and to 120 male non-alcoholics, a questionnaire dealing with the social background or combined disease. The following results were obtained. 1. Most alcoholics were male, between 40years old and 60years old, who had left high scholl in mid-course, engaged in manual labor, and lost both parents before fifteen years old. 2. Therelationship between family and alcoholics was investigated. In persons under 49 years old, the percentage of alcoholics who belong to large families (no fewer than four brothers) was significantly higher than that of non-alcoholics (p<0.01). The percentage of alcoholics who belong to small families in two familiy types between alcoholics and non-alcoholics in person above 50 years old. 3. Theaverage age when alcoholics began drinking was 18.8, and the average age when alcoholics began socalled ”problem drunking” was 36.8. 4. In the blood typr ABO system, the precentage of AB type was dignificantly higher in alcoholics than in non-alcoholics (p<0.05).
Languages
jpn
Resource Type
journal article
Publishers
山口大学医学会
Date Issued
1990-08
File Version
Not Applicable (or Unknown)
Access Rights
metadata only access
Relations
[ISSN]0513-1731
[NCID]AN00243156
Schools
医学部