Negative consequences associated with daily alcohol use as a nonlinear function of number of drinks in a daily diary study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Drinking intensity among young adults is associated with greater negative alcohol-related consequences, but often studied using categorical drinking thresholds. This study examined how alcohol-related consequences varied as a continuous function of number of drinks consumed, without imposing thresholds, to identify drink ranges for which risk is greatest.

Methods

Analyses included daily surveys from the Young Adult Daily Life study (2019-22) in which individuals reported drinking 1 or more alcoholic drinks (n=5219 days; 832 individuals). Time-varying effect models estimated total number of negative alcohol-related consequences and five individual consequences (hangover, drank more than planned, nausea/vomiting, did something embarrassing, blacked out) as a funct

SUBMITTER: Evans-Polce RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11862988 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature