Education and race-ethnicity differences in the lifetime risk of alcohol dependence

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 224-230

  Gilman, Stephen E ^a   Breslau, J ^b   Conron, K J ^a   Koenen, K C ^a   Subramanian, S V ^a   Zaslavsky, A M ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BLACK POPULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DESIGN; EDUCATION; HEALTH RISK; MITIGATION; RACE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; COLLEGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; RACE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 39649115823     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2006.059022     Document Type: Article

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