Alcohol Use and Cognition at Mid‐Life: The Importance of Adjusting for Baseline Cognitive Ability and Educational Attainment

D Krahn, J Freese, R Hauser, K Barry… - Alcoholism: Clinical …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… studies, and even educational attainment is only sometimes … alcohol intake and later-life
cognition, we hypothesize that the observed relationship between alcohol intake and cognition

Alcohol consumption and cognitive performance: a M endelian randomization study

M Kumari, MV Holmes, CE Dale, JA Hubacek… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
attainment, but could also reflect parental alcohol intake 23. We speculate that educational
attainment in early life could be on a causal pathway between alcohol intake and cognition, …

Alcohol consumption and cognitive function in late life: a longitudinal community study

M Ganguli, JV Bilt, JA Saxton, C Shen, HH Dodge - Neurology, 2005 - AAN Enterprises
… In addition to age, sex, educational level, and recruitment status, we also examined
smoking and depressive symptoms. For these analyses, participants were classified as ever-…

The relationship between alcohol use and long-term cognitive decline in middle and late life: a longitudinal analysis using UK Biobank

G Piumatti, SC Moore, DM Berridge… - Journal of Public …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… For the covariates, educational attainment was included as a binary variable (with or without
a degree). BMI was included as two binary variables (normal <24.9 kg/m 2 compared to …

Effects of alcohol consumption on cognition and regional brain volumes among older adults

B Downer, Y Jiang, F Zanjani… - American Journal of …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
… midlife alcohol consumption and cognitive functioning during … of moderate alcohol consumption
for cognitive functioning later … educational attainment according to alcohol consumption

Moderate alcohol consumption and cognitive risk

EJ Neafsey, MA Collins - Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
… between moderate drinking of alcohol and some aspect of cognition. Two types of papers …
, allowed cognition in drinkers to be rated as “better,” “no different,” or “worse” than cognition in …

[HTML][HTML] Educational attainment impacts drinking behaviors and risk for alcohol dependence: results from a two-sample Mendelian randomization study with~ 780,000 …

DB Rosoff, TK Clarke, MJ Adams, AM McIntosh… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
… usually taken with meals) and significance remained after additional analysis using EA
instruments with SNPs nominally associated with either cognition or income suggest that EA may …

Alcohol consumption and domain-specific cognitive function in older adults: longitudinal data from the Johns Hopkins Precursors Study

AL Gross, GW Rebok, DE Ford, AY Chu… - … Sciences and Social …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
… Our data suggest that alcohol intake three to four times per week or low levels of drinks
per week through midlife and into later life confer the best cognitive outcomes in old age, as …

Associations of alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, and drug use/dependence with educational attainment: Evidence from cotwin‐control analyses

JD Grant, JF Scherrer, MT Lynskey… - Alcoholism: Clinical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… , our base alcohol variable was early alcohol use, which was defined as the onset of alcohol
use … For example, cognitive ability has been implicated in both substance use disorders and …

Cognitive functioning in late life: the impact of moderate alcohol consumption

LC McGuire, UA Ajani, ES Ford - Annals of epidemiology, 2007 - Elsevier
… Men tended to be younger (p < 0.01) and have higher levels of educational attainment (p <
0.01) than women (Table 3). In addition, men were more likely to be married (p < 0.01), have …