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Aims
To examine if (1) there is a positive association between drinking volume in young men and life‐time risk of alcohol dependence (AD) and (2) there are other associations between young adulthood factors and life‐time risk of AD.
Design
Prospective cohort study of sons of fathers with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and matched low‐risk controls without paternal AUD.
Setting and participants
A total...
Aims
To investigate the impact of alcohol exposure on tuberculosis (TB) development in Taiwanese adults.
Design
Participants from the Taiwan National Health Interview Survey. Alcohol consumption and other covariates were collected by in‐person interviews at baseline. Incident cases of active TB were identified from the National Health Insurance database. A multivariable Cox regression model was...
Aims
We investigated the association between weekly alcohol consumption and binge drinking and the risk of unemployment, sickness absence and disability pension.
Design
Prospective register‐based cohort study.
Setting
Denmark.
Participants
A sample of 17 690 men and women, aged 18–60 years from the Danish Health and Morbidity Survey in 2000, 2005 and 2010 participated in the study. Participants...
BACKGROUND
Alcohol consumption is associated with a higher risk of colorectal cancer, but to the authors' knowledge its influence on survival after a diagnosis of colorectal cancer is unclear. The authors investigated associations between prediagnosis and postdiagnosis alcohol intake with mortality among survivors of colorectal cancer.
METHODS
The authors identified 2458 men and women who were...
Epidemiologic studies have reported that moderate alcohol consumption is inversely associated with the risk of renal cancer. However, there is no information available on the associations in renal cancer subsites. From 1992 through to 2010, 477,325 men and women in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort were followed for incident renal cancers (n = 931). Baseline and...
Objective To examine the relationship between alcohol consumption and risk of mortality and incident coronary heart disease (CHD), taking account of variation in intake during follow‐up.
Method Prospective cohort study of 5411 male civil servants aged 35–55 years at entry to the Whitehall II study in 1985–88. Alcohol consumption was reported five times over a 15‐year period. Mortality, fatal CHD,...
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