Gender and alcohol consumption: Patterns from the multinational GENACIS project

Addiction

Volumn 104, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1487-1500

  Wilsnack, Richard W ^a   Wilsnack, Sharon C ^a   Kristjanson, Arlinda F ^a   Vogeltanz Holm, Nancy D ^a   Gmel, Gerhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG PROBLEMS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Age differences; Alcohol; Drinking patterns; Gender differences; Multinational

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EUROPE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68249124372     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2009.02696.x     Document Type: Article

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