scholarly journals Age, Period and Cohort Effects on Time Trends in Alcohol Consumption in the Swedish Adult Population 1979–2011

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludwig Kraus ◽  
Mimmi Eriksson Tinghög ◽  
Annette Lindell ◽  
Alexander Pabst ◽  
Daniela Piontek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Time Trends ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Cohort Effects

Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Time Trends in Alcohol Consumption in the German Adult Population

2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 349-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Pabst ◽  
Ludwig Kraus ◽  
Daniela Piontek ◽  
Stefanie Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Time Trends ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Heavy Drinking ◽  
Epidemiological Survey ◽  
Alcohol Policy ◽  
Cohort Effects ◽  
Drinking Patterns ◽  
Age Variations ◽  
Cohort Groups

Aims: To estimate independent age, period, and cohort effects on time trends in alcohol volume and episodic heavy drinking in Germany. Method: Data from six waves of the German Epidemiological Survey of Substance Abuse (ESA) between 1995 and 2009 were used. The analytical sample comprised n = 34,542 individuals aged 18 to 64 years with at least one drinking occasion in the last 30 days. Alcohol volume was derived from beverage-specific quantity frequency questions. Episodic heavy drinking was specified as the number of days with five or more alcoholic drinks at a single occasion. Results: On average across age and cohort groups, alcohol consumption has considerably declined over the last 15 years. Cohort effects indicate a decline in alcohol volume from the 1940s to the 1970s birth cohort groups and a steep increase in younger cohorts. Moreover, cohorts born after 1980 were found to drink more often to intoxication than older cohorts. Age variations in trends were rather small compared to period and cohort effects. Conclusions: Despite the steady declining trend in alcohol consumption in the German general population, there is a tendency toward riskier drinking patterns among the youngest cohorts. This underlines the need for alcohol policy measures.

scholarly journals Changes in Alcohol Consumption Pattern Based on Gender during COVID-19 Confinement in Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 8028
Author(s):  
Víctor J. Villanueva-Blasco ◽  
Verónica Villanueva Silvestre ◽  
Manuel Isorna ◽  
Patricia Motos ◽  
Pere Blay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
Daily Consumption ◽  
Standard Drink ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Consumption Frequency ◽  
Employment Situation ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Health Risk Management

(1) The goal of this study was to analyze the prevalence and pattern of alcohol consumption (frequency of consumption, average daily consumption, and risky consumption) before and during confinement due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the adult population and based on gender. (2) Methods: Data from 3779 individuals were collected via a set of online surveys. The AUDIT alcohol consumption questions (AUDIT-C) were used to measure the frequency of consumption, the average daily consumption, intensive consumption, risky consumption, and standard drink units. (3) Results: During confinement, the prevalence of alcohol consumption declined in both males and females, but only intensive consumption showed significant differences, with a greater reduction in males. The number of females who consumed alcohol four or more times per week doubled, whereas the number of males who did so was multiplied by a factor of 1.5; in both females and males, the percentage who presented intensive consumption doubled. The percentage of females with risky consumption was higher than that of males both before and during confinement. In addition to gender, the interaction between age and the employment situation explain consumption before and during confinement. (4) Conclusions: During confinement due to COVID-19, alcohol consumption declined in both sexes, but alcohol-risk consumers increased their frequency of use. The interaction between gender, age, and employment situation was related to these changes. These findings are relevant for guiding public health and health-risk management policies related to alcohol consumption in environmental situations similar to COVID-19.

scholarly journals Clues to the aetiological heterogeneity of testicular seminomas and non-seminomas: time trends and age-period-cohort effects

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 826-831 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiliang Liu ◽  
Robert Semenciw ◽  
Chris Waters ◽  
Shi Wu Wen ◽  
Leslie S Mery ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Trends ◽  
Cohort Effects

scholarly journals Birth cohort effects on the quantity and heritability of alcohol consumption in adulthood: a Finnish longitudinal twin study

Addiction ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 114 (5) ◽  
pp. 836-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suvi Virtanen ◽  
Jaakko Kaprio ◽  
Richard Viken ◽  
Richard J. Rose ◽  
Antti Latvala
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Birth Cohort ◽  
Twin Study ◽  
Cohort Effects ◽  
Longitudinal Twin Study

scholarly journals Nordic, Italian, and German Drinking Habits: A Comparison between Surveys Made since the 1980s

1995 ◽  
Vol 12 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 14-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sari Hanhinen
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Heavy Drinking ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Drinking Patterns ◽  
Central European ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Drinking Habits ◽  
Drinking Frequency

This article compares Nordic drinking habit surveys and their results — a comparison previously done in 1988. It includes all the main surveys regarding drinking habits of the adult population in the Nordic countries since 1988. In addition the analysis takes in Italy and Germany. Drinking habits are described and compared on four dimensions: the share of abstainers and drinkers, overall drinking frequency, the volume of alcohol consumption, and heavy drinking and drinking for intoxication. The study highlights the difficulties inherent in the international comparison of drinking habits. The results indicate that even though the changes in beverage preferences imply a homogenization of drinking patterns, the homogenization hypothesis proves to be wrong when comparing the results concerning the shares of abstainers, drinking frequencies or distribution of alcohol consumption between women and men. Denmark still differs from the rest of the Nordic countries in these respects, being closer to central European countries like Germany. In the other Nordic countries traditional drinking patterns seem to persist despite the changes in beverage preferences. Closest to Denmark and central European countries stands Finland, where drinking frequency has been rising and where more alcohol is consumed than in Sweden, Norway and Iceland. Looking at the previous comparison of Nordic drinking habits, it can be concluded that drinking habits are very open to changes.

scholarly journals Testing the phenotypic decanalization hypothesis: social determinants of hyperglycemia and type 2 diabetes in adult urban Argentinian population

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Alejandra Petino Zappala ◽  
Guillermo Folguera ◽  
Santiago Benitez Vieyra
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Blood Glucose ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Fasting Blood Glucose ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Phenotypic Variance ◽  
Fasting Glycemia ◽  
Individual Behaviors

Type 2 diabetes, one of the major causes of death and disability worldwide, is characterized by problems in the homeostasis of blood glucose. Current preventive policies focus mainly on individual behaviors (diet, exercise, salt and alcohol consumption). Recent hypotheses state that the higher incidence of metabolic disease in some human populations may be related to phenotypic decanalization causing a heightened phenotypic variance in response to unusual or stressful environmental conditions, although the nature of these conditions is under debate. Our aim was to explore variability patterns of fasting blood glucose to test phenotypic decanalization as a possible explanation of heightened prevalence for type 2 diabetes in some groups and to detect variables associated with its variance using a nation-wide survey of Argentinian adult population. We found patterns of higher local variance for fasting glycemia associated with lower income and educational attainment. We detected no meaningful association of glycemia or its variability with covariates related to individual behaviors (diet, physical activity, salt or alcohol consumption). Our results were consistent with the decanalization hypothesis for fasting glycemia, which appears associated to socioeconomic disadvantage. We therefore propose changes in public policy and discuss the implications for data gathering and further analyses.

scholarly journals A pattern of alcohol consumption among marijuana users in the adult population of the city of Gdańsk

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-14
Author(s):  
Maciej Brosz
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Psychoactive Substance ◽  
Psychoactive Substances ◽  
Psychoactive Substance Use ◽  
The City

Alcohol and marijuana are the most commonly used psychoactive substances both in Europe and Poland. In the last four years the proportion of marijuana users in the adult population of Gdańsk has almost doubled: from 7.1% in 2015 to 14.1% in 2019. The surveys concerning the consumption of alcohol conducted every four years since 2007 indicate a significant fact: the proportion of people who drink is decreasing. However, this does not mean that they drink less or less often. A question elaborated in this article is whether marijuana users consume more or less alcohol than non-users. This article is based on the data collected in a questionnaire survey on alcohol and other psychoactive substance use conducted in Gdańsk in the autumn of 2019 on a representative sample of 1,004 adult residents of the city.

scholarly journals An epidemiological study on alcohol consumption and knowledge of its harmful effects on human health among rural adult population of adopted villages covered under field practice area of a private medical college in Udaipur, Rajasthan

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 4874
Author(s):  
Rupesh Kumar ◽  
Rakhi Luthra ◽  
Maitri R. Hathi
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Sleep Disturbances ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Field Practice ◽  
Harmful Effects

Background: Consumption of alcohol among adults is a serious public health issue worldwide. However the knowledge of adverse effects of alcohol consumption on human health is very negligibly less in small towns and villages of India. Present study was conducted to determine the extent of alcohol intake and the knowledge of its adverse effects on human health among adult population.Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out on randomly selected 400 rural adults from a field practice area of private medical college, Udaipur.Results: Prevalence of alcohol consumption was found to be (47.25%) with (49.36%) males and (39%) females. More than half of drinkers (55.9%) were belonging to 30-39 age group. Country liquor was preferred by (68.88%) and only (17.77%) consume English (IMFL). (56%) of alcohol consumers were drinking alcohol for more than a year. Most of the drinkers (49%) were induced by their friends, (24%) were induced/influenced by their parents. (42.25%) drinkers had knowledge of harmfulness of alcohol drinking; however the awareness per se did not have statistically significant effect for alcohol consumption. Results showed that the knowledge of excessive intake of alcohol can cause harmful effects on human health like Infertility to woman, irregular menstrual cycle, cancer were statistically significant (p<0.05) gender wise, while effects like depression, sleep disturbances, alcoholic hepatises, liver disease, malnutrition were statistically not significant (p>0.05).Conclusions: There is a need to enhance awareness on adverse effects of alcohol and at least bring down consumption level among heavy drinkers through peer group/family/community involvement.

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