Adolescent alcohol and cannabis use as risk factors for head trauma in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort study 1986.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim of this study was to assess the associations between cannabis use and frequency of alcohol intoxication in adolescence with the risk of traumatic brain injury and craniofacial fractures in early adulthood. Hypothesis was that using alcohol and cannabis in adolescence could increase the risk for head traumas.

Methods

Data from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 (n = 9432 individuals) were used to investigate the prospective association between the self-reported frequency of alcohol intoxication (n = 6472) and cannabis use (n = 6586) in mid-adolescence and register-based, head trauma diagnoses by ages 32-33 years. To test the robustness of these associations, the statistical models were adjusted for a range of other confounders such as illicit drug use,

SUBMITTER: Koivisto MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10710361 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature