TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Alcohol drinking and health in ageing: a global scale analysis of older individual data through the harmonised dataset of ATHLOS
JO  - Nutrients
A1  - Tyrovolas, Stefanos
A1  - Panaretos, Dimitris
A1  - Daskalopoulou, Christina
A1  - Gine-Vazquez, Iago
A1  - Niubo, Albert Sanchez
A1  - Olaya, Beatriz
A1  - Bobak, Martin
A1  - Prince, Martin
A1  - Prina, Matthew
A1  - Ayuso-Mateos, José Luis
A1  - Caballero, Francisco Félix
A1  - García-Esquinas, Esther
A1  - Holger, Arndt
A1  - Scherbov, Sergei
A1  - Sanderson, Warren
A1  - Gheno, Ilenia
A1  - Koupil, Ilona
A1  - Bickenbach, Jerome
A1  - Chatterji, Somnath
A1  - Koskinen, Seppo
A1  - Raggi, Alberto
A1  - Pajak, Andrzej
A1  - Tobiasz-Adamczyk, Beata
A1  - Haro, Josep Maria
A1  - Panagiotakos, Demosthenes
SP  - e1746
EP  - e1746
VL  - 12
IS  - 6
N2  - We investigated the relation between alcohol drinking and healthy ageing by means of a validated health status metric, using individual data from the Ageing Trajectories of Health: Longitudinal Opportunities and Synergies (ATHLOS) project. For the purposes of this study, the ATHLOS harmonised dataset, which includes information from individuals aged 65+ in 38 countries, was analysed (n = 135,440). Alcohol drinking was reflected by means of three harmonised variables: alcohol drinking frequency, current and past alcohol drinker. A set of 41 self-reported health items and measured tests were used to generate a specific health metric. In the harmonised dataset, the prevalence of current drinking was 47.5% while of past drinking was 26.5%. In the pooled sample, current alcohol drinking was positively associated with better health status among older adults ((b-coef (95% CI): 1.32(0.45 to 2.19)) and past alcohol drinking was inversely related (b-coef (95% CI): -0.83 (-1.51 to -0.16)) with health status. Often alcohol consumption appeared to be beneficial only for females in all super-regions except Africa, both age group categories (65-80 years old and 80+), both age group categories, as well as among all the financial status categories (all p < 0.05). Regional analysis pictured diverse patterns in the association for current and past alcohol drinkers. Our results report the need for specific alcohol intake recommendations among older adults that will help them maintain a better health status throughout the ageing process.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2072-6643
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12061746
ID  - ref1
ER  -