BACKGROUND Harmful alcohol consumption in older people has increased and effective approaches to understanding and addressing this societal concern are needed. METHODS Systematic review of qualitative studies in older populations (55+ years) to identify barriers, facilitators or context of drinking in older people. Multiple databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, CENTRAL, Social Science...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Alcohol use is a major contributor to injuries, mortality and the burden of disease. This review updates knowledge on risk relations between dimensions of alcohol use and health outcomes to be used in global and national Comparative Risk Assessments (CRAs). METHODS Systematic review of reviews and meta-analyses on alcohol consumption and health outcomes attributable to alc...

BACKGROUND Liver function tests (LFTs) can be affected by many factors and the proposed effects of coffee on LFT require a comprehensive evaluation. The aim of this study was to elucidate whether drinking coffee, smoking, or drinking alcohol have independent effects on LFTs in Korean health-check examinees. METHODS We used the responses of 500 health-check examinees, who had participated in a...

Excessive drinking among young women continues to attract adverse media attention and is the target of UK government-led initiatives. Reliable research on alcohol consumption is needed to inform/evaluate public health interventions. This pilot study, investigating descriptors of alcohol drinking in female Scottish undergraduate students, comprised: (i) self-completed questionnaire survey (n = 9...

Todkar, A. 2016. Alcohol Consumption: A Study of Genetic and Environmental Correlates with Focus on the Stress System. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1214. 58 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9554-1. Early life stress (ELS) is associated with risk of excessive alcohol drinking. However, the genetic mechanisms und...

BACKGROUND Despite substantial decreases in the magnitude of the alcohol-crash problem over the past 25 years, many Canadians continue to drive under the influence of alcohol, causing thousands of serious injuries and deaths every year. METHODS Data from the 2004 Canadian Addiction Survey (CAS) were used to determine the prevalence of self-reported driving after drinking and the characteristi...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of heavy drinking among college students and its associated health related consequences highlights an urgent need for alcohol prevention programs targeting 18 to 24 year olds. Nevertheless, current alcohol prevention programs in the Netherlands pay surprisingly little attention to the drinking patterns of this specific age group. The study described in this protocol wi...

BACKGROUND Psychosocial factors at work are thought to influence health partly through health behaviours. AIMS To examine the association between effort-reward imbalance and job control and several alcohol related measures in three eastern European populations. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in Novosibirsk (Russia), Krakow (Poland), and Karvina (Czech Republic). The participa...

BACKGROUND The connections between alcohol use, mental health problems and mental well-being have been under-researched. We examined the links between different aspects of alcohol use and positive and negative aspects of mental health, and the effect of protective social factors on these links. METHODS A cross-sectional general population survey of Finns aged 15-69 years was carried out in 20...

Alcohol consumption is frequent among university students in Lebanon as elsewhere in the world. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Lebanon's public and private universities between October 2009 and September 2010 using a standardized questionnaire to assess personal beliefs about alcohol consumption, peers' behaviours and opinions and history of and current drinking practices. Of 1235 stu...