Secular changes in at-risk drinking in Sweden: Birth cohort comparisons in 75-year-old men and women 1976-2006

Age and Ageing

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 228-234

  Waern, Margda ^a   Marlow, Tom ^a   Morin, Johanna ^a   Östling, Svante ^a   Skoog, Ingmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alcohol; At risk drinking; Cohort comparisons; Older people

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BIRTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWEDEN;

ALCOHOL; AT-RISK DRINKING; COHORT COMPARISONS; OLDER PEOPLE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84896740322     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/aft136     Document Type: Article

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