A new era for drinking? Epidemiological evidence on adolescent male-female differences in drinking incidence in the United States and Europe.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We seek answers to three questions about adolescent risk of starting to drink alcoholic beverages: (1) in new United States (US) data, can we reproduce a recently discovered female excess risk? (2) has a female excess risk emerged in European countries? and (3) might the size of country-level female-male differences (FMD) be influenced by macro-level gender equality and development processes?

Methods

Estimates are from US and European surveys of adolescents, 2010-2014. For US estimates, newly incident drinking refers to consuming the first full drink during the 12-month interval just prior to assessment. For all countries, lifetime cumulative incidence of drinking refers to any drinking before assessment of the sampled 15-16 years.

Results

Cumulative meta-anal

SUBMITTER: Cheng HG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5233577 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature