{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,21]],"date-time":"2026-09-21T13:06:34Z","timestamp":1789995994284,"version":"4.0.1"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch (HPCDP) Public Health Agency of Canada","issue":"9","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Health Promot Chronic Dis Prev Can"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2026,9]]},"abstract":"<sec>\n                    <title>Abstract<\/title>\n                    <p>Heavy episodic drinking (HED) is a key population indicator for harmful alcohol consumption. We used data from the Canadian Community Health Survey to examine recent trends in sex-based differences in HED among adults by age group from 2017 to 2019 and 2022 to 2023. The overall prevalence of HED was 20.5% (95% CI: 20.1, 20.8) in 2017 to 2019 and 20.3% (95% CI: 19.9, 20.8) in 2022 to 2023. Overall, males had a higher HED prevalence than females; however, sex-based differences narrowed in 2022 to 2023 compared to 2017 to 2019. Among those aged 18 to 25 years, females reported a higher HED prevalence than males in 2022 to 2023 (prevalence: 27.9% vs. 24.2%), yielding a prevalence difference of \u22123.7% (95% CI: \u22129.4,1.9), although the confidence interval includes zero, indicating uncertainty about whether a meaningful difference exists. From 2017 to 2019 and 2022 to 2023, the prevalence of HED in Canada remained high, and sex-based differences narrowed across all age groups, particularly among young adults, where rates converged.<\/p>\n                  <\/sec>","DOI":"10.24095\/hpcdp.46.9.04","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,21]],"date-time":"2026-09-21T12:28:09Z","timestamp":1789993689000},"page":"332-337","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Sex-based differences in heavy episodic drinking among adults in Canada, 2017\u20132023: a repeated cross-sectional analysis"],"prefix":"10.24095","volume":"46","author":[{"given":"Erin","family":"Hobin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"},{"name":"Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Leili","family":"Baghaie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"},{"name":"Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Naomi","family":"Schwartz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sze Hang","family":"Fu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Samantha","family":"Forbes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"},{"name":"Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Brendan","family":"Smith","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"},{"name":"Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"10188","container-title":["Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/services\/reports-publications\/health-promotion-chronic-disease-prevention-canada-research-policy-practice\/vol-46-no-9-2026\/sex-based-differences-heavy-episodic-drinking-adults-canada-2017-2023-cross-sectional-analysis.html","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,21]],"date-time":"2026-09-21T12:28:10Z","timestamp":1789993690000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/services\/reports-publications\/health-promotion-chronic-disease-prevention-canada-research-policy-practice\/vol-46-no-9-2026\/sex-based-differences-heavy-episodic-drinking-adults-canada-2017-2023-cross-sectional-analysis.html"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2026,9]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"9"},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.24095\/hpcdp.46.9.04","archive":["Internet Archive"],"relation":{},"ISSN":["2368-738X"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2368-738X","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2026,9]]}}}