TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1998//
TI  - Alcohol and all-cause mortality in Europe 1982-1990: a pooled cross-section time-series analysis
JO  - Addiction
A1  - Her, M.
A1  - Rehm, Jürgen T.
SP  - 1335
EP  - 1340
VL  - 93
IS  - 9
N2  - AIM: To test the relationship between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality. DESIGN: Data: Yearly mortality rates and per capita consumption from 25 European countries between 1982 and 1990. STATISTICAL MODELS: This paper employs time-series cross-sectional data to model the relationships between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality. The data are derived from 25 European countries in the 1980s. The statistical analyses controlling cross-sectional correlation and timewise autoregression were used to implement the econometric modelling. FINDINGS: Increases (decreases) in the per capita consumption of 1 litre of pure alcohol were associated with increases (decreases) of 1.3% in all-cause mortality rates. The beverage-specific analyses indicated a significant relationship between consumption of beer and all-cause mortality only. CONCLUSION: The data show that per capita alcohol consumption, according to reported levels in Europe, is related to all-cause mortality and is thus of relevance to public health.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0965-2140
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -