Socioeconomic status and alcohol use disorders across the lifespan: A co-relative control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Alcohol use disorders (AUD) is well known to aggregate in families and is associated with socioeconomic status (SES). The objective was to study the effect of education, income and neighborhood SES in adulthood on AUD, and to explore whether the potential associations were confounded by shared familial factors, by using a co-relative control design.

Methods

Data on AUD was drawn from the Swedish inpatient and outpatient care registers; prescription drug register; and crime data. Through national population registers we collected information on income, education and neighborhood SES at age 25, 30, 35 and 40 years in all individuals born in Sweden between 1950 and 1980. Each sex-specific stratum consisted of approximately 750,000-1,200,000 individuals, who were foll

SUBMITTER: Calling S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6797188 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature