The present study is part of a longitudinal project that has examined latelife patterns of alcohol consumption and drinking problems moos et al. Total alcohol intake was the sum of the values for all three beverages. Article tools add to favorites email to a friend download citation track citations. In order to identify high risk drinkers and plan for resource allocation, an accurate estimate of exposure to alcohol in the population is needed. According to current office for national statistics ons figures, there were 9,214 alcoholrelated deaths in the uk in 2016, 456 more than the previous year. Alcohol consumption in later life and reaching longevity. Latelife alcohol consumption and 20year mortality ama. Alcohol consumption and mortality among middleaged and. Wine consumption and 20year mortality among latelife moderate drinkers article in journal of studies on alcohol and drugs 731. Late life alcohol consumption and 20 year mortality. Alcoholattributable deaths and years of potential life. Wine consumption and 20year mortality among latelife moderate drinkers journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 73 1, 8088 2012. However, the impact of tobacco smoking on liver cirrhosis has not been considered. Additionally, the usual pattern of alcohol drinking may also be important.
Moderate drinkers live longer in general than either abstainers or alcohol abusers. Drinking level, drinking pattern, and twentyyear total mortality among latelife drinkers journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 76 4, 552558 2015. Alcohol consumption for different periods in life, intake pattern over time and allcause mortality alcohol consumption for different periods in life, intake pattern over time and allcause mortality jayasekara, harindra. In 2016, people in their fifties and sixties suffered the highest rate of alcoholrelated deaths in the uk. Alcohol consumption is common in western countries and has been increasing in older adults. It imposes a significant public health burden and shortens the survival of patients, especially in china, which is experiencing the fastest growth in the elderly population. Usual alcohol consumption and suicide mortality among the. To estimate statespecific average annual rates of alcoholattributable. Life course trajectories of alcohol consumption in the. Is regular drinking in later life an indicator of good. Effects of alcohol consumption on health and mortality. Whereas alcohol consumption has been studied frequently in relation to mortality especially cvd, the findings were inconsistent. Results light and moderate volumes of alcohol consumption were inversely associated with cardiovascular mortality. Published in volume 1, issue 1, pages 16482 of american economic journal.
Alcohol accounts for most of the large fluctuations in russian mortality, and alcohol and tobacco account for the large difference in adult mortality between russia and western europe. Latelife alcohol consumption and 20year mortality charles j. The sample at baseline included 1,824 individuals between the ages of 55 and 65. Pdf latelife alcohol consumption and 20year mortality. We find large and immediate increases in drinking at age 21. Survey, representative of the us population living in households.
For example, moderately drinking alcohol reduces risk of death from cardiovascular diseases by. Alcohol dosing and total mortality in men and women. Guidelines on safe alcohol drinking are probably about. However, the proportion of college students ages 1824 who in the past year reported driving under the influence of alcohol increased significantly from 26. The authors found a significant influence of drinking alcohol on mortality with a j shaped association for. Cognitive impairment is a serious threat to health of the elderly in the context of the demographic aging process. Abstinence from alcohol in midlife, long term abstinence, and decrease in consumption were associated with a significantly higher risk of dementia of 45%, 67%, and 50%, respectively, compared with consumption of 114 unitsweek, but only among participants who reported abstinence from wine. However, we still know relatively little about the extent to which latelife personal and social. Heavy drinking is a wellestablished factor in causing disability and excessive mortality among all age groups, including the elderly. In general, older adults alcohol consumption tends to decline with age.
Year mortality article in alcoholism clinical and experimental research 3411. Alcohol consumption was assessed at baseline, and total mortality was indexed across an ensuing 20year period. Year mortality holahan, charles j schutte, kathleen k brennan, penny l holahan, carole k moos, bernice s moos, rudolf h. Alcohol use is related to a wide variety of negative health outcomes including morbidity, mortality, and disability. The objective of this article is to estimate premature mortality attributable to alcohol in the us in 2005, differentiated by race, age and sex for people 15 to 64 years of age. Background alcohol consumption has both adverse and beneficial effects on survival. Excessive alcohol consumption is a significant public health problem and contributes to elevated mortality, morbidity, and related health care costs. National alcohol survey of households in trinidad and. Wine consumption and 20year mortality among latelife.
Mortality and potential years of life lost attributable to. Is alcohol consumption in older adults associated with. Alcohol use by older adults is common, yet the risks andor benefits of drinking, especially moderate drinking, are not well understood. The aim of this study is to clarify which drinking profiles and other demographic. Alcohol consumption and its associated harms are high on the public health agenda.
Background previous studies have revealed inconsistent findings regarding the association of light to moderate alcohol consumption with cardiovascular disease cvd and cancer mortality. Factors associated with alcohol consumption and prescribed. Selfreported life satisfaction and 20year mortality in. The relationship between alcohol consumption and liver cirrhosis mortality has been revealed by data from several different countries. The differences in episodic memory according to late life alcohol consumption status were no longer significant when hippocampal volume was included in the regression model. The aim of this study was to estimate trends in liver cirrhosis mortality and alcohol and tobacco consumption from 1952 to 20 as well as more recent trends in substance. In the uk it is estimated that there were 8,367 alcoholrelated deaths in 2012 and that 8% of all hospital admissions involved an alcoholrelated condition. Objectives the aim of this study was to examine the association between alcohol consumption and risk of mortality from all causes, cancer, and cvd in u. They reported history of alcohol use never, past, six daily drinks and donated a blood sample in 20012004.
Background alcohol has been linked to health disparities between races in the us. We determined the adh1b rs1229984 ga polymorphism and retrieved mortality data from the western. Latelife and life history predictors of older adults. The effects of alcohol consumption on morbidity and mortality. A nationwide sample of healthy adults 1864 years, n 22,461 from the finnish twin cohort responded to a questionnaire about life satisfaction and known predictors of mortality in 1975. Using the concept of voluntary risk taking that includes lifestyle factors such as drinking, the authors concluded, if drinking guidelines were to be based on the usual accepted lifetime mortality risk for voluntary behaviours, the maximum alcohol consumption would be one drink a day. Latest figures from great britain suggest 75% of those over 65 years drink, an increase from 71% 10 years ago. Effects of drinking on latelife brain and cognition. Regression discontinuity evidence from the minimum drinking age by christopher carpenter and carlos dobkin we estimate the effect of alcohol consumption on mortality using the minimum drinking age in a regression discontinuity design. Although factors such as nutrition and health services may be involved, the evidence is that substantial changes in alcohol consumption over the. Methods we searched pubmed for articles available until december 2005, supplemented by references from the selected articles. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between alcohol consumption and all. Population data on alcohol consumption, such as the uk general lifestyle survey, show that older adults might consume less than younger groups, but are more likely to drink regularly.
Overall, studies on alcohol consumption and mortality show that the lowest. Holahan cj1, schutte kk, brennan pl, holahan ck, moos bs, moos rh. The aim of this study was to explore the association between sociodemographic variables, physical and mental health and the later 11 years use of frequent drinking, prescribed drugs with addiction potential and the possible combination of frequent drinking and being. Effects of alcohol consumption on cognition and regional. A summary score for life satisfaction ls, defined as interest in.
That is, moderate alcohol consumption increases longevity or length of life. The present study extends our research examining alcohol consumption and allcause mortality among older adults in the larger database from which the current sample was drawn holahan et al. Results in multiple logistic regression analyses, after adjusting for all covariates, as well as overall alcohol consumption, moderate drinkers who engaged in episodic heavy drinking had more than 2 times higher odds of 20. Moderate alcohol consumption and lower total mortality. Background the evidence from prospective studies on whether greater usual alcohol consumption is associated with a higher risk of death by suicide in the general population is inconclusive. Chronic heavy intake is a wellestablished cause of brain atrophy and dementia, with a recent longterm prospective study from the usa reporting a doubling of the odds of later severe. We performed a metaanalysis of prospective studies on alcohol dosing and total mortality. Evidence shows that alcoholism or chronic alcohol consumption can cause. Wine consumption and 20 year mortality among latelife moderate drinkers article in journal of studies on alcohol and drugs 731. Alcohol consumption for different periods in life, intake. Mortality in older adults with frequent alcohol consumption and use.
Little is known about factors associated with alcohol consumption and use of drugs with addiction potential in older adults. Macinnis, robert j hodge, allison m hopper, john l giles, graham g room, robin. Excessive alcohol consumption, the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the united states 1, resulted in approximately 88,000 deaths and 2. We designed this cohort study of men aged 7089 years to determine if excessive alcohol use increases mortality.
Alcohol and mortality national institute on alcohol. Growing epidemiological evidence indicates that moderate alcohol consumption is associated with reduced total mortality among middle. Is alcohol consumption in older adults associated with poor self. Age is an important determinant of drinking behaviours.
Liver cirrhosis mortality, alcohol consumption and tobacco. We find large and immediate increases in drinking at age 21, including a 21 percent increase in recent drinking. Growing epidemiological evidence indicates that moderate alcohol consumption is associated with reduced total mortality among middleaged and older adults. Highrisk alcohol consumption and latelife alcohol use. Srh was used as an indicator of health, as it is a strong predictor of mortality. We identified bivariate correlates of alcohol use, and heavy episodic drinking using chisquare and ttest. Regression discontinuity evidence from the minimum drinking agef by christopher carpenter and carlos dobkin we estimate the effect of alcohol consumption on mortality using the minimum drinking age in a regression discontinuity design. Alcohol consumption was assessed at baseline, and total mortality was indexed across an ensuing 20 year period. Moderate alcohol consumption and lower total mortality risk. The authors investigated the role of selfreported life satisfaction in mortality with a prospective cohort study 19761995. Alcoholrelated mortality is also highest at older age groups and increasing among the elderly, while stabilising at younger ages. Background moderate consumption of alcohol is inversely related with coronary disease, but its association with mortality is controversial.
Regression discontinuity evidence from the minimum drinking age by christopher carpenter and carlos dobkin. The association of lifetime alcohol use with mortality and cancer risk. Alcohol consumption and mortality among women nejm. Overall, studies on alcohol consumption and mortality show that the lowest mortality risk occurs with consumption of around 10 g of alcohol per day, with about 15% lower risk as compared to abstainers. We examined this issue among 802 adults ages 5565 at baseline. Compared with lifetime abstainers, summary relative risks were 0.
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