Relationship of Body Mass Index to Alcohol Consumption in College Freshmen

Objective. Assess the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and drinking in college freshman. Method. College freshman (N = 199) at a university completed the drinking questionnaires. Drinking amount and the alcohol problem index (RAPI) served as outcomes, and BMI was the independent variable....

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Autores principales: Nies, Mary A., Sun, Linman, Kazemi, Donna, Carriker, Amy, Dmochowski, Jacek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Scientific World Journal 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3354654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22654639
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/2012/849018
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description Objective. Assess the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and drinking in college freshman. Method. College freshman (N = 199) at a university completed the drinking questionnaires. Drinking amount and the alcohol problem index (RAPI) served as outcomes, and BMI was the independent variable. Results. RAPI scores were associated with gender, amount of drinking, and BMI (P < 0.001, F = 13.44). Increase of RAPI with drinking amount was larger for females (slope = 0.06) than for males (slope = 0.03). Conclusion. This information can be helpful when providing health promotion strategies to college students regarding nutrition modifications that would be most beneficial for their health.
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spelling pubmed-33546542012-05-31 Relationship of Body Mass Index to Alcohol Consumption in College Freshmen Nies, Mary A. Sun, Linman Kazemi, Donna Carriker, Amy Dmochowski, Jacek ScientificWorldJournal Research Article Objective. Assess the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and drinking in college freshman. Method. College freshman (N = 199) at a university completed the drinking questionnaires. Drinking amount and the alcohol problem index (RAPI) served as outcomes, and BMI was the independent variable. Results. RAPI scores were associated with gender, amount of drinking, and BMI (P < 0.001, F = 13.44). Increase of RAPI with drinking amount was larger for females (slope = 0.06) than for males (slope = 0.03). Conclusion. This information can be helpful when providing health promotion strategies to college students regarding nutrition modifications that would be most beneficial for their health. The Scientific World Journal 2012-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3354654/ /pubmed/22654639 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/2012/849018 Text en Copyright © 2012 Mary A. Nies et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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