Risk profiles of adults with heavy alcohol use: Drinking patterns, behavioral and metabolic factors, health problems, and racial and ethnic disparities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Heavy alcohol use is a growing risk factor for chronic disease, yet little is known about its co-occurrence with other risk factors and health problems. This study aimed to identify risk profiles of adults with heavy alcohol use and examined potential disparities by race and ethnicity.

Methods

This cross-sectional study included 211,333 adults with heavy alcohol use (in excess of daily or weekly limits recommended by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) between June 1, 2013 and December 31, 2014 in Kaiser Permanente Northern California. Latent class analysis was used to examine how heavy drinking patterns clustered with other behavioral and metabolic risk factors and health problems to form risk profiles. Multinomial logistic regression models were

SUBMITTER: Palzes VA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10755251 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature