Drinking and mortality: Long-term follow-up of drinking-discordant twin pairs

Addiction

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 245-254

  Sipilä, Pyry ^a   Rose, Richard J ^c   Kaprio, Jaakko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol drinking; Alcoholic intoxication; Binge drinking; Causality; Confounding factors; Follow up studies; Mortality; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MORTALITY; SMOKING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOBACCO; TWINS;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84954234306     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/add.13152     Document Type: Article

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