Episodic heavy drinking in four Nordic countries: a comparative survey

Mäkelä, Pia; Fonager, Kirsten; Hibell, Björn; Nordlund, Sturla; Sabroe, Svend; Simpura, Jussi

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“…There has been a tendency to believe that socio-demographic correlates function similarly across developed societies, but recent research has shown that differences exist [8]. Moreover, these results confirm and elaborate the Danish drinking patterns described by Mäkelä et al [1]. For example, we also found that drinking frequency increases with age, something Mäkelä et al did not find in the other Nordic countries, but is a pattern that Denmark shares with continental Europe [10].…”

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Socio-demographic correlates of alcohol consumption in the Danish general population

Bloomfield

Grittner

Rasmussen

et al. 2008

Scand J Public Health

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With respect to the rest of Europe and North America, Danes consume high levels of alcohol with a large percentage of youth drinking in a binge pattern. Classical socioeconomic factors play a lesser role in determining drinking patterns compared to other Western countries. Longitudinal studies and studies of alcohol-related consequences in the Danish general population should be conducted to better formulate alcohol and public health policy.

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“…Danes have been characterized as in a ''league of their own'' when comparing their drinking style to that of Nordic counterparts [1]. Denmark is among the highest alcohol consuming countries in Europe and Danish teens rank at the top for frequency of drunkenness [2].…”

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Socio-demographic correlates of alcohol consumption in the Danish general population

Bloomfield

Grittner

Rasmussen

et al. 2008

Scand J Public Health

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“…4 In several countries in which this phenomenon was studied, binge drinking, even of the sporadic kind, causes high social and health costs. 15,16 This study found that binge drinking is frequent among adolescents who drink, especially among boys, older adolescents, those who have their own income and those who do not value religion. In addition to how frequent adolescents engage in binge drinking, recent studies in several countries have demonstrated the association of this kind of behavior with healththreatening and risky behaviors such as riding as a passenger in a car driven by a drunk driver, using other psychoactive substances, and becoming involved in physical fights.…”

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Patterns of alcohol use among Brazilian adolescents

Pinsky

Sanches²,

Zaleski

et al. 2010

Rev. Bras. Psiquiatr.

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Objective: To describe patterns of alcohol consumption by adolescents in Brazil. Method: From November 2005 to April 2006, a sample composed of 661 subjects aged between 14 to 17 years was rigorously selected in Brazil using a multistage probabilistic method to represent the profile of the adolescent Brazilian population. Results: 34% of Brazilian adolescents drink alcoholic beverages. The mean age of drinking initiation was 14 years of age. Older adolescents, as well as those living in the southern part of Brazil, those who are not attending school and those who are working, and black individuals and those with personal income reported a higher frequency of drinking. Socio-demographic factors such as gender, income bracket, family income and student status do increase the amount of alcohol consumed. Males report a higher frequency of binge drinking than females. Moreover, more than half of the males that had drunk in the previous year reported having engaged in binge drinking on at least one occasion. Beer represents approximately half of all the drinks consumed by adolescents. There was no significant difference between genders in the kind of alcohol consumed. Discussion: Among adolescents who drink, the consumption of several drinks is frequent. Alcohol consumption varies from region to region, social economic status (including self-generated income) and age. These findings are discussed in light of their importance for the development of alcohol prevention policies in Brazil. Descriptors

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“…112 Yet, much less has been written on trends in drinking patterns elsewhere (in fact, the first international conference focusing specifically on patterns was only held in the mid 1990s, 113,114 and systematic data collection on patterns of consumption only began afterwards). 115 …”

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Contributions of risk factors and medical care to cardiovascular mortality trends

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Ischaemic heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are responsible for an estimated 17.5 million annual deaths in the world. If account is taken of population aging, death rates from CVDs are estimated to be steadily decreasing in the world as a whole, and in regions with reliable trend data. The declines in high-income countries and some countries in Latin America have been ongoing for decades with no indication of slowing. In high-income countries, these positive trends have broadly coincided with, and benefited from, declines in smoking and physiological risk factors like blood pressure and serum cholesterol. Improvements in medical care, including effective primary prevention through management of physiological risk factors, better diagnosis and treatment of acute CVDs, and post-hospital care of those with prior CVDs, are also likely to have contributed to declining CVD event and death rates, especially in the past 40 years. However, the measured risk factor and treatment variables neither explain why the decline began when it did, nor much of the similarities and differences in the start time and rate of the decline across countries or between men and women. There have been sharp changes and fluctuations in CVDs in the former communist countries of Europe and the Soviet Union since the fall of communism in the early 1990s, with changes in volume and patterns of alcohol drinking, as a major cause of the rise in Russia and some other former Soviet countries. The challenge of reaching more definitive conclusions concerning the drivers of what constitutes one of the most remarkable international trends in adult mortality in the past half-century in part reflects the paucity of time trend data not only on disease incidence, risk factors, and clinical care, but also on other potential drivers, including infection and associated inflammatory processes throughout the lifecourse.

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Episodic heavy drinking in four Nordic countries: a comparative survey

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Socio-demographic correlates of alcohol consumption in the Danish general population

Patterns of alcohol use among Brazilian adolescents

Contributions of risk factors and medical care to cardiovascular mortality trends

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