How much do Europeans know about the link between alcohol use and cancer? Results from an online survey in 14 countries

Table 2 Proportion of respondents selecting the condition where alcohol consumption increases the risk of, by gender, age, and education, using weighted data^a

All countries, N = 19,601	Gender			Age				Education
All countries, N = 19,601	Women	Men	p-value^b	18–34	35–54	55+	p-value^b	Secondary or less	Tertiary	p-value^b
N	9,583	10,018		5,753	7,975	5,873		12,163	7,438
Cancer	57%	49%	< 0.001	56%	53%	49%	< 0.001	47%	62%	< 0.001
Heart disease	71%	64%	< 0.001	74%	68%	61%	< 0.001	64%	73%	< 0.001
Liver disease	93%	86%	< 0.001	89%	91%	89%	< 0.001	88%	93%	< 0.001
Respiratory disease	12%	11%	< 0.001	15%	11%	9%	< 0.001	10%	13%	< 0.001
Don’t know	4%	7%	< 0.001	6%	5%	6%	0.001	6%	3%	< 0.001
None	1%	3%	< 0.001	1%	1%	3%	< 0.001	2%	1%	0.098
Female breast cancer*	21%	10%	< 0.001	15%	16%	14%	0.004	10%	23%	< 0.001
Liver cancer*	54%	46%	< 0.001	53%	50%	47%	< 0.001	45%	59%	< 0.001
Colon cancer*	42%	35%	< 0.001	38%	41%	36%	< 0.001	33%	48%	< 0.001
Oral cancer*	31%	25%	< 0.001	30%	29%	24%	< 0.001	23%	36%	< 0.001
Skin cancer*	7%	5%	0.001	10%	5%	3%	< 0.001	5%	8%	< 0.001
Don’t know*	1%	2%	0.009	2%	2%	1%	0.040	2%	2%	0.598
None*	0%	0%	0.084	0%	0%	0%	0.013	0%	0%	0.178

* Only respondents selecting “cancer’ were asked to respond to the question about specific cancers, percentage represents proportion of all respondents
^a Weighted by age, gender, and education on country level based on the population distribution of EUROSTAT
^b Chi-squared test for differences in proportions was conducted to assess statistical significance. P-values below 0.05 are considered statistically significant

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