Rūkančių vyrų nerimo sąsajos su alkoholio vartojimo rizika
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Alkoholio vartojimo rizika; Nerimas; Nerimo sutrikimai; Tabako vartojimo rizika; Anxiety; Anxiety disorders; Risk of alcohol consumption; Risk of tabacco consumption.
ENThe aim of the study – to determine relations between anxiety and the risk of alcohol consumption among smoking men from 40 to 55 years of age that have metabolic syndrome. Material and methods. The research was conducted in 2012–2014 at Vilnius University Hospital Santariškiu Klinikos in the Unit of Preventive Cardiology. Patients were interviewed that were screened according to the Lithuanian High Cardiovascular Risk (LitHiR) primary prevention program and had metabolic syndrome diagnosed at primary health care centre and therefore arrived for the examination. The study included 193 men from 40 to 55 years of age, smoking ≥10 years more than ≥10 cigarettes per day that had metabolic syndrome. The methods of the study: the survey of sociodemographic situation, the diagnostic criteria of metabolic syndrome, standard alcohol units per week counted, The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST), Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HAD), Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI). Results. We compared the groups of men who had the symptoms of anxiety (HAD N≥8) and men who had not the symptoms of anxiety (HAD N<8). Men who had the symptoms of anxiety were tend to experience the symptoms of depression and more often had anxiety disorders. Men who had the symptoms of anxiety more often belonged to high risk category of tabacco consumption than those who had not the symptoms of anxiety. Men who had the symptoms of anxiety ASSIST scores of tabacco consumption were significantly higher than those men who had not the symptoms of anxiety. We determined that men who had the symptoms of anxiety more often belonged to the moderate and high risk categories of alcohol consumption than those who had not the symptoms of anxiety.Conclusions. Men who had the symptoms of anxiety ASSIST scores of tabacco consumption were significantly higher than those men who had not the symptoms of anxiety. We determined that men who had the symptoms of anxiety more often belonged to the moderate and high risk categories of alcohol consumption than those who had not the symptoms of anxiety. Conclusions. Men who had the symptoms of anxiety more often belonged to the high risk group of tabacco consumption and the moderate and high risk groups of alcohol consumption than those who had not the symptoms of anxiety. [From the publication]
