1Public Health Institute
2 Health Science University of Mongolia, Public Health School
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Health damages caused by the consumption of alcoholic beverages increase each year and become a leading cause of non-communicable diseases, accidents and injury, and population morbidity and mortality in Mongolia. Of Mongolian adults, 51.2% consume alcoholic beverages to excess, and the prevalence of alcoholism is 6.4 per 1000 in urban and 2.4 per 1000 in rural areas. In the last 5 years, 150,000 people were taken into custody due to the excessive use of alcohol. Over 1000 people die of alcohol-related diseases, injuries, and poisoning in one year.
Therefore, there is a need for a detailed study on the influence of the consumption of alcoholic beverages on human health, and for a use of the study results in treatment, diagnosis, and prevention of alcohol-related diseases. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of alcohol consumption in Mongolians, its peculiarities and consequences. The study was carried out using a combination of questionnaire as in “STEPS survey”, WHO, which studied risk factors of non-communicable diseases. One thousand, five hundred and thirty-three participants aged 15-64 years from Ulaanbaatar and 21 aimags of Mongolia were involved in the study.
The prevalence of alcohol consumption did not depend on the location of participants, whereas the consumption of alcoholic beverages was higher in males than in females, and the percentage of alcohol consumers was highest in the 25-44 age group. The alcoholic flush was detected in 56.8% of participants, and this body reaction occurred after the consumption of smaller amounts of strong alcohol compared to beverages with a lower content of ethanol. Alcohol flush was detected after drinking strong alcohol in smaller amount than after the consumption of alcohol with the lower content of ethanol. The amount of alcoholic beverages that resulted in heavy intoxication was highest for airag and smallest for strong alcohol.
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