Worsening of Health and a Cessation or Reduction in Alcohol Consumption to Special Occasion Drinking Across Three Decades of the Life Course

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 166-174

  Ng Fat, Linda ^a   Cable, Noriko ^a   Shelton, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Life Course; Limiting Longstanding Illness; Nondrinking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LIMITING LONGSTANDING ILLNESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOEDUCATION; SELF REPORT; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT; AGING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HISTORY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGING; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANNIVERSARIES AND SPECIAL EVENTS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921458686     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acer.12596     Document Type: Article

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