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12. Brenner, H.; Arndt, V.; Rothenbacher, D.;
Schuberth, S.; Fraisse, E.; Fliedner, T.M. Association between alcohol consumption and
all-cause mortality in a cohort of male employees in the German construction industry.
International Journal of Epidemiology, 26(1):85-91, 1997. (138021)
This paper presents an analyses on the relation between
self-reported alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality in a cohort of 8043 construction
workers from Southern Germany in which the methodological concerns of misreporting of
alcohol consumption or confounding/inclusion of a high proportion of ex-drinkers or
individuals with pre-existing diseases among abstainers is addressed. A major concern of
most pertinent epidemiological studies is the validity of the measures of alcohol
consumption, which are typically based on self reports. Another concern is that abstainers
tend to differ from drinkers in a variety of other potential risk factors. A very strong
U-shaped relation between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality was found. In
particular, an almost 3-fold mortality among
teetotalers compared to men who consumed 1-49 g of alcohol per day was found along with a strong positive dose-response relation
between alcohol intake and all-cause mortality among drinkers. It appears extremely
unlikely that the increased mortality among abstainers compared to moderate drinkers would
result from confounding or inclusion of a high proportion of heavy drinkers who deny their
alcohol consumption or of individuals with pre-existing diseases. Results indicated that
the analysis of biological markers showed no significant differences between abstainers
who did and abstainers who did not die during the follow-up. Strongly increased mortality
was found among heavy drinkers. Exclusion of non-drinkers with pre-existing diseases did
not change the U-shaped association between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality.
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5. Fuentes-Almendras, M.; Mora-Ripoll, R.; Dijk, A.; Dominguez-Garcia, A.;
Salleras-Sanmarti, L. Alcohol consumption among high school students in Barcelona,
Spain. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 60(2):228-233, 1999. (147929)
Since adolescents are a high-risk group for alcohol-related
problems, this study was undertaken to gain insight into the prevalence of alcohol
consumption among this population. This study was carried out in the city of Barcelona
using an anonymous questionnaire which included information about frequency and quantity
of alcohol consumption. The sample population was composed of all the students from 13 to
20 years old who were attending high school during 1992-93 (n=1,137) and 1994-95
(n=1,094). The amount of alcohol consumption was calculated in alcohol units per week for
four groups of different beverages (beer, wine, spirits, and aperitifs) and also in grams
per day. The results revealed that lifetime prevalence of alcohol consumption was 92.5
percent in 1992-93 and 77.0 percent in 1994-95. Students who drank more frequently were
older and male. In 1992-93, 8 percent of female students had an absolute alcohol intake
beyond 24 g per day (risk consumption), which was the same percentage in 1994-95. Male
students had a higher intake, although risk consumption rate (more than 40 g per day) was
similar to that of females, 9 percent and 7.4 percent in 1992-93 and 1994-95,
respectively. It is concluded that while changes in the prevalence of drinking are
encouraging, the results of this study also show an increase in the quantity of alcohol
consumed. 23 Ref.
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