Background
The Korean traditional national holidays commonly produce several physical symptoms related to stress. This study was performed to evaluate the degree of the stress from the married women during their Korean traditional biggest holidays. Methods: The subjects were 99 married women who had visited the Health Promotion Center at a university hospital. For evaluating the stress of the Korean traditional biggest holidays, subjects were allowed to write in subjective stress score based on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale. The factors associated with the stress were investigated. Results: The mean (± SD) score of the married women's stress of the Korean traditional biggest holidays was 38.7 (± 21.9). The score was widely distributed from the 0 to 100. The cases with hobbies to cope with stress showed significantly (P < 0.05) lower stress score than those without hobby. The stress score was inversely correlated with family APGAR score (r = -0.346, P < 0.01). In stepwise multiple regression model, the stress score was related to family APGAR score and hobby to cope with stress (overall R2 = 0.171, P < 0.001). Conclusion: The stress score of the Korean traditional biggest holidays was widely distributed from 0 to 100 in Korean married women. These results suggest that traditional biggest holidays act as a stressor for individual with a range of variable extent.

Citations

• Birthweight as a measure of holiday stress
  Kitae Sohn
  Women & Health.2018; 58(3): 347.     CrossRef

Background
: It has been suggested that CDT is a potential biological marker in the Western countries to reflect the degree of past alcohol consumption. This study was performed to compare CDT, AST (aspartate transaminase), ALT (alanine transaminase), and GGT (gamma-glutamyl transferase) as a biological marker reflecting drinking amounts in Korean patients.

Methods : The 25 males with moderate drinking (＜14 drinks/week) and 26 males with heavy drinking (＞21 drinks/week) were studied for the relationships between their weekly drinking amount and the blood levels of CDT, AST, ALT, and GGT.

Results : Only CDT was significantly correlated (P=0.001) with weekly drinking amount among heavy drinkers, while both CDT (P=0.029) and GGT (P=0.000) were significantly correlated in moderate drinkers. Stepwise multiple regression revealed that GGT had R² of 49.1% in moderate drinkers and CDT had R² of 38.9% in heavy drinkers for the weekly drinking amount.

Conclusion : The results described above suggested that CDT can be a potential biological marker for the purpose of quantitative monitoring the drinking behavior of heavy drinkers in Korea.