Alcohol Use in Adolescence and Later Working Memory: Findings From a Large Population-Based Birth Cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

The study aimed to examine the association between adolescent alcohol use and working memory (WM) using a large population sample.

Methods

Data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children were used to investigate the association between alcohol use at age 15 years and WM 3 years later, assessed using the N-back task (N ~ 3300). A three-category ordinal variable captured mutually exclusive alcohol groupings ranging in order of severity (i.e. low alcohol users, frequent drinkers and frequent/binge drinkers). Differential dropout was accounted for using multiple imputation and inverse probability weighting. Adjustment was made for potential confounders.

Results

There was evidence of an association between frequent/binge drinking (compared to the low alc

SUBMITTER: Mahedy L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5913665 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature