Alcohol-related mortality by ethnic origin of natives: a prospective cohort study based on multigenerational population register data from Finland and Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aim was to assess alcohol-related mortality of persons with mixed and uniform ethnic origins in two national contexts.

Setting

Data were from the multigenerational population registers of the total population of Finland and Sweden observed from 1971 to 2017. Study persons were men and women of ethnic Finnish and Swedish background, born in their country of residence.

Participants

Persons were born between 1953 and 1999. In Finland, ethnic origin was assessed through own, mother's and father's Finnish or Swedish ethnolinguistic affiliation. Data on Sweden included persons born in Sweden, with mother and father born in Sweden or Finland. A total of 2 997 867 and 4 148 794 persons were included in the Finnish and Swedish data, respectively. The total numbe

SUBMITTER: Saarela J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7682461 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature