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The association between alcohol exposure and self-reported health status: the effect of separating former and current
Wenbin Liang1, Tanya Chikritzhs
1National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. w.liang@curtin.edu.au
Aims:
To investigate the direction and degree of potential bias introducedto analyses of drinking and health status which exclude former drinkers from exposure groups.
Design:
Pooled analysis of 14 waves (1997-2010) of the U.S. National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).
Setting:
General population-based study.
Participants:
404,462 participants, from 14 waves of the NHIS, who had knownself-reported health status and alcohol consumption status.
Measurements:
Self-reported health status was used as the indicatorof health. Two approaches were used to classify alcohol consumption: (i) separation of former drinkers and current drinkers, and (ii) combined former and current drinkers. The prevalence of fair/poor health by alcohol use, gender and age with 95% confidence intervals was estimated. The difference in prevalence of fair/poor health status for lifetime abstainers, former drinkers, current drinkers and drinkers (former drinkers and current drinkers combined) were compared using Poisson regression with robust estimations of variance.
Findings:
Excluding former drinkers from drinker groups exaggerates the difference in health status between abstainers and drinkers, especially for males.
Conclusions:
In cohort study analyses, former drinkers should be assigned to a drinking category based on their previous alcohol consumption patterns and not treated as a discrete exposure group.
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