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onstitutes 'a drink' in the U.S. population," said Midanik. "The size of a drink may vary dramatically, as well as the alcohol content of the alcohol consumed. These findings should stress to researchers that obtaining information on beverage use must include specific alcohol beverage type and some measure of the size of drinks."

Kerr added that this study's closer look at individual drinks also resulted in larger estimates of monthly alcohol consumption than estimates based on standard drinks. "This discrepancy is larger for women," he said, "because a larger proportion of their drinks are wine and spirits. Also, the difference in monthly alcohol volume is larger than the difference in mean drink size because heavier drinkers appear to choose high-alcohol-content drinks on average."

"The real-world implications of these findings are that we are continuously underestimating alcohol use in the U.S. and within specific populations with our traditional survey methodology," said Midanik. "This is highly problematic given that policy, treatment and prevention efforts are based on national surveys which provide basic epidemiologic data on alcohol use and alcohol-related problems in the population. These findings also have major implications for researchers, and will hopefully provide additional refinements to our survey questions in order to provide better estimates of alcohol consumption."

"In summary," said Kerr, "our findings suggest that many readers and their friends & family are pouring themselves larger-than-standard drinks. Given that safe-drink messages are based on a specific amount of alcohol in a drink, 0.6 ounces, they might want to become more aware of the percentage of alcohol in the brands of beer, wine and spirits they choose, perhaps adjusting their drink size accordingly. At minimum, they should be aware of larger-than-standard drinks."

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