Alcohol consumption and future hospital usage: The EPIC-Norfolk prospective population study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Heavy drinkers of alcohol are reported to use hospitals more than non-drinkers, but it is unclear whether light-to-moderate drinkers use hospitals more than non-drinkers.

Objective

We examined the relationship between alcohol consumption in 10,883 men and 12,857 women aged 40-79 years in the general population and subsequent admissions to hospital and time spent in hospital.

Methods

Participants from the EPIC-Norfolk prospective population-based study were followed for ten years (1999-2009) using record linkage.

Results

Compared to current non-drinkers, men who reported any alcohol drinking had a lower risk of spending more than twenty days in hospital multivariable adjusted OR 0.80 (95%CI 0.68-0.94) after adjusting for age, smoking status, education

SUBMITTER: Luben R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6051641 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature