Heavy drinking and use of sedative or anxiolytic drugs among aging men: An 11-year follow-up of the findrink study;Consumo elevado de alcohol y uso de fármacos ansiolíticos o sedantes en hombres de edad avanzada: seguimiento de 11 años de duración del estudio findrink study

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1240-1247

  Ilomäki, Jenni ^a,b   Bell, J Simon ^a,b   Kauhanen, Jussi ^b   Enlund, Hannes ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c Finnish Medicines Agency   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alcohol drinking; Epidemiology; Finland; Longitudinal studies; Psychotropic drugs

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; DIAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; OXAZEPAM; TEMAZEPAM; ZOLPIDEM;

ADULT; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEPRESSION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG USE; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOM SAMPLE; RISK; SMOKING;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLISM; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; FINLAND; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 80053981861     PISSN: 10600280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1345/aph.1Q375     Document Type: Article

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