Intelligence in young adulthood and alcohol use disorders in a prospective cohort study of Danish men: the role of psychiatric disorders and parental psychiatric history.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aims were to estimate the association between intelligence measured in young adulthood and risk of alcohol use disorders (AUD) in men and to investigate the potential modification of this association by psychiatric disorders, parental AUD and parental psychiatric disorders.

Design

Prospective cohort study based on a linkage of intelligence test scores from draft board examinations and register data on AUD diagnoses during 36 years of follow-up.

Setting

Denmark.

Participants

3287 Danish men from the Copenhagen Perinatal Cohort (born 1959-1961) who appeared before the draft board at a mean age of 18.7 years.

Primary outcome measure

First registration with AUD during follow-up was the primary outcome. Information on AUD was based on diagnoses

SUBMITTER: Just-Ostergaard E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731796 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature