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At Wave 0, there was significant variation between the drinking profiles (X = 212.3, p < 0.01).
There was significant variation between the drinking profiles (X = 76.2, p < 0.01).
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Cross-sectional analyses suggest that none of the drinking profiles examined in this study were associated with poor self-rated health and drinking profiles did not predict self-rated health at ten year follow up.
The association between drinking profiles and self-rated health at wave 0 and wave 5 was examined using descriptive statistics and the chi-square test.
Logistic regression analysis, was used to examine the association between drinking profiles (based on quantity and frequency of drinking) and self-rated health, adjusting for gender, age, wealth, social class, education, household composition, smoking and body mass index [BMI].
Logistic regression analyses were undertaken to examine the association between the nine independent variables (drinking profiles and the variables described above) and the dependent variable (self-rated health).
For example, the non-drinking profiles tended to be dominated by women (ranging between 54.4-66.8%), whereas the heavy drinking profiles tended to be dominated by men (ranging between 66.9-76.6%).
Older adults who stopped drinking prior to the study were the only drinking profile associated with an improvement in self-rated health over the ten year period.
The results associated with the stopped drinking profile indicate improvement in self-rated health can be associated with changes in drinking behaviour.
For the unadjusted models there were no drinking profiles associated with significantly higher odds of poor self-rated health.
In the adjusted models there were again no drinking profiles associated with significantly higher rates of poor self-rated health.
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