Association between adolescent alcohol use and cognitive function in young adulthood: A co-twin comparison study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Studies on adolescent alcohol use and cognition are often unable to separate the potential causal effects of alcohol use on cognition from shared etiological influences, including genetic influences or other substance use comorbidities also known to be associated with cognition, such as nicotine use. The present study aimed to fill this gap and clarify the relationship between adolescent alcohol use and young adult cognition by accounting for both measured and unmeasured confounders.

Design

A random effects model accounting for nesting in families was used to control for measured confounders. Next, co-twin comparisons were conducted within the full sample and in monozygotic twin pairs (MZ) to control for unmeasured genetic and environmental confounders sh

SUBMITTER: Cooke ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11524136 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature