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Alcohol and all-cause mortality in Europe 1982-1990: a pooled cross-section time-series analysis
1Social and Evaluation Department, Addiction Research Foundation, Toronto, Canada. MHer@arf.org
Aim:
To test the relationship between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality.
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.
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