Sentence examples for more standard drinks from inspiring English sources

Binge drinking is defined as the consumption of five or more standard drinks at one drinking opportunity.

40 Previously, the Harvard College Alcohol Study illustrated that the reporting of unplanned sexual activity increased from 8% among non-binge drinkers, 22% among occasional binge drinkers (six or more standard drinks in one drinking occasion) to 42% among frequent binge drinkers.

WHO reported that the lifetime prevalence of abstainers was 61.2% and that only 2.1% of Chinese women consumed three or more standard drinks on a typical drinking day (WHO, 2004).

WHO reported that 61.2% of the population were lifetime abstainers and only 2.1% of them consumed three or more standard drinks on a typical drinking day although the WHO has noted that alcohol consumption in Asia is rising rapidly (WHO, 2004).

Data on alcohol consumption were collected using a series of four questions covering the 12 months prior to the survey, including simple two-question usual quantity/usual frequency items [ 24] and two additional questions asking the respondent how often they consumed five or more and eleven or more standard drinks in a single drinking session.

However, that study had a lower threshold for heavy drinking than the current study (i.e. drinking six or more standard drinks for men (four or more for women) on one occasion at least once a week).

High risk groups are defined as women who drink 2 or more standard alcohol drinks (i.e. >20 grams ethanol) per day; and men who drink 4 or more standard alcohol drinks (i.e. >40 grams ethanol) per day; without meeting the DSM-IV criteria for alcohol dependency [13].

Harmful alcohol consumption (binge drinking) was defined for women as having consumed 4 or more standard alcoholic drinks on a single occasion in the last 30 days, and for men, as having consumed 5 or more drinks.

Over half the women had consumed five or more standard alcoholic drinks on at least one day in the past twelve months (54%) and 15.6% had consumed 11 or more drinks on one day.

The adolescents were asked a) if they had consumed alcohol in the last 30 days (30-day-prevalence) and if yes, b) on how many days they had consumed 5 or more standard alcoholic drinks in a row.

Note that the definition of hazardous drinking (at the time when the data was collected) deviates from the current drinking advice of not more than four standard drinks in one drinking session for women and no more than five for men [ 26].