The relationship between neighborhood poverty and alcohol use: estimation by marginal structural models.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous studies on the relationship of neighborhood disadvantage with alcohol use or misuse have often controlled for individual characteristics on the causal pathway, such as income-thus potentially underestimating the relationship between disadvantage and alcohol consumption.

Methods

We used data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study of 5115 adults aged 18-30 years at baseline and interviewed 7 times between 1985 and 2006. We estimated marginal structural models using inverse probability-of-treatment and censoring weights to assess the association between point-in-time/cumulative exposure to neighborhood poverty (proportion of census tract residents living in poverty) and alcohol use/binging, after accounting for time-dependent confoun

SUBMITTER: Cerda M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3897210 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature