Twenty-year trajectories of alcohol consumption during midlife and atherosclerotic thickening in early old age: Findings from two British population cohort studies

BMC Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Britton, Annie ^a   Hardy, Rebecca ^a   Kuh, Diana ^a   Deanfield, John ^a   Charakida, Marietta ^a   Bell, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Atherosclerosis; Life course; Longitudinal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRITISH CITIZEN; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEAVY DRINKER; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODERATE DRINKER; NONDRINKER; SELF REPORT; SENESCENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; UNITED KINGDOM; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGE; AGED; BLOOD; BODY MASS; ETHNIC GROUP; LIFESTYLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

CHOLESTEROL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS INDEX; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CHOLESTEROL; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84979700790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-016-0656-9     Document Type: Article

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