Acute stress is thought to precipitate alcohol drinking. Yet the ways that acute stress can increase alcohol consumption are unclear
ABSTRACT Aims To examine the literature on the associations between alcohol use disorders (AUD) and major depression (MD), and to evaluate the evidence for the existence of a causal relationship between the disorders. Methods PsycInfo; PubMed; Embase; Scopus; ISI Web of Science database searches for studies pertaining to AUD and MD from the 1980 to the present
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Previous research regarding the association between alcohol consumption and dementia or cognitive impairment in later life suggests that mild to moderate alcohol consumption might be protective of dementia. However, most of the research has been conducted on subjects already rather elderly at the start of the follow-up…
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010
ABSTRACT Aims To estimate the overall impact of alcohol on ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality in the United States using aggregate-level models and to consider beverage-specific effects that may represent more effectively the changes in drinking patterns over time that are related to both harmful and protective impacts of alcohol consumption on IHD. Design Several model specifications are estimated, including state-specific autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models and generalized least squares (GLS) panel models on first-differenced data.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
ABSTRACT Aims This study investigated the association between alcohol consumption and health status using cross-sectional national survey data. Measurements and design This study relied upon self-report data collected by the 2004 and 2007 Australian National Drug Strategy Household (NDSH) surveys. Households were selected using a multi-stage, stratified-area, random sample design.
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Also tagged australian, data-collected, general-health, having-reduced, national-drug, national-survey, observed, past, presence, stopped-alcohol, the-association, years-or-older
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Friday, September 17, 2010
In the Life After Cancer Epidemiology (LACE) study, 1,897 participants diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer between 1997 and 2000 and recruited on average 2 years post-breast cancer diagnosis were evaluated for the association between alcohol intake and breast cancer recurrence and death. The women, who were generally light drinkers, were followed for an average of 7.4 years…
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
An updated factsheet Grasping the nettle: alcohol and domestic violence [pdf] has been released by Alcohol Concern . Authored by Dr Sarah Galvani, it provides an updated overview of the research on the association between alcohol and domestic violence and a clear outline of the implications for policy and practice. See here for information on Alcohol Concern's children, families and domestic abuse Embrace project
Aims To describe the association between alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and mortality and to examine risk factors for and all-cause, injury-related and non-injury-related mortality among those diagnosed with an AUD.Setting Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration (VHA).Participants A cohort of individuals who received health care in VHA during the fiscal year (FY) 2001 (n = 3 944 778), followed from the beginning of FY02 through the end of FY06.Measurements Demographics and medical diagnoses were obtained from VHA records.
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Also tagged associated-more, association, auds-on-average, demographics, diagnoses-were, injury-or-non, medical, mortality-were, national, national-death, through-the-end, veterans-health
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Aims Assess long-term trends of the correlation between alcohol sales data and survey data.Design Analyses of state alcohol consumption data from the US Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System based on sales, tax receipts or alcohol shipments. Cross-sectional, state annual estimates of alcohol-related measures for adults from the US Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System using telephone surveys.Setting United States.Participants State alcohol tax authorities, alcohol vendors, alcohol industry (sales data) and randomly selected adults aged [ge] 18 years 1993[ndash]2006 (survey data).Measurements State-level per capita annual alcohol consumption estimates from sales data. Self-reported alcohol consumption, current drinking, heavy drinking, binge drinking and alcohol-impaired driving from surveys.
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Also tagged annual-r-values, association, based-on-sales, consistency, correlation, distribution, findings-state, heavy-drinking, magnitude, setting-united, the-correlation
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Aim To investigate the association between alcohol use and adherence to highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients in subSaharan Africa.Design and setting Cross-sectional survey conducted in eight adult HIV treatment centres from Benin, Côte d’Ivoire and Mali.Participants and measurements During a 4-week period, health workers administered the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test to HAART-treated patients and assessed treatment adherence using the AIDS Clinical Trials Group follow-up questionnaire.Findings A total of 2920 patients were enrolled with a median age of 38 years [interquartile range (IQR) 32[ndash]45 years] and a median duration on HAART of 3 years (IQR 1[ndash]4 years). Overall, 91.8% of patients were identified as adherent to HAART.
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