Alcohol consumption and health status of family members: health impacts without ingestion.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over several decades, many cohort studies from the medical epidemiology literature have observed that compared with abstainers, moderate drinkers experience lower risk for a range of diseases. It was very difficult to separate the hypothesised physiological protective effect of moderate drinking from its well-correlated confounders in observational study settings.

Aims

To investigate the association between current alcohol consumption levels of randomly selected family members and the current self-reported health status of other members living within the same family, using a large-scale representative general population survey.

Method

Poisson regression models of the association between randomly selected key respondent alcohol consumption and health status

SUBMITTER: Liang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3604182 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature