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Hazardous drinking was defined as drinking &gt;10 units\/week. Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves of AUDIT and AUDIT-C were calculated and cut-off scores were derived. Results: Respectively 27.3% and 12.3% of older men and women drank &gt;10 units\/week. For the AUDIT the best trade-off between sensitivity and specificity was using a cut-off of \u22655 for men and \u22654 for women, which yielded in men sensitivity and specificity values respectively of 80.7% and 81.3% and in women 100% and 71.7%, respectively. We found the AUDIT-C to perform well with an optimal cut-off of \u22655 for men and \u22654 for women, which generated in men sensitivity and specificity values respectively of 76.5% and 85.3% and in women 100% and 74.1%, respectively. 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