Intelligence Test Scores Before and After Alcohol-Related Disorders-A Longitudinal Study of Danish Male Conscripts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Existing studies on intellectual consequences of alcohol-related disorders are primarily cross-sectional and compare intelligence test scores of individuals with and without alcohol-related disorders, hence mixing the influence of alcohol-related disorders and predisposing factors such as premorbid intelligence. In this large-scale study, the primary aim was to estimate associations of alcohol-related disorders with changes in intelligence test scores from early adulthood to late midlife.

Methods

Data were drawn from a follow-up study on middle-aged men, which included a re-examination of the same intelligence test as completed in young adulthood at military conscription (total analytic sample = 2,499). Alcohol-related hospital diagnoses were obtained from nationa

SUBMITTER: Gronkjaer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6851852 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature