Do socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity modify the relationship between alcohol use and unintentional injury mortality?

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a knowledge gap regarding the potential roles that socioeconomic status (SES), race and ethnicity may play in the associations between alcohol use and injury risk. This study aimed to examine these factors as potential effect modifiers in the relationship between heavy episodic drinking (HED) and unintentional injury mortality.

Methods

We used mortality-linked data from the 1997-2018 US National Health Interview Survey. We performed survey-weighted Cox proportional hazards models to evaluate the effect modification of education, income, race and ethnicity on the relationship between the frequency of HED and motor vehicle and other unintentional injuries mortality.

Results

559 442 participants were included, with 772 motor vehicle fatalities and 200

SUBMITTER: Llamosas-Falcon L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12798856 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature