… Excessive alcohol consumption is a leading cause of premature mortality in the United …
national estimates of alcohol-attributable deaths (AAD) and years of potential life lost (YPLL) in …

… Widespread implementation of prevention strategies, including those recommended by
the Community Preventive Services Task Force (eg, increasing alcohol taxes and regulating …

… Are there gender differences in patterns of high-risk alcohol consumption and in changes
in … -risk patterns of alcohol consumption predict late-life alcohol use problems, and do these …

… alcoholism and excessive alcohol intake. Many traits that predict excessive alcohol consumption
and dependence … social groups and develop complex, life-long social bonds with both …

… In our sample, 27% of the patients with moderate alcohol use had, at baseline, a lifetime …
our patients with excessive alcohol use may have had lower rates of abuse and dependence of …

… harmful effects of excessive alcohol use by demonstrating that the ADH1B rs1229984 G>A
polymorphism, which is associated with lower alcohol consumption or abuse, decreases the …

… points of reductions in total alcohol consumption and heavy drinking days are continuous …
than binary outcomes such as abstinence or no heavy drinking days (MacCallum et al., 2002; …

… identify changes in patterns of alcohol consumption over a 20-year … -defined excessive
drinking and late-life drinking problems. … alcohol at or prior to baseline participated in a survey of …

… Here, we consider potential predictors of late-life high-risk alcohol consumption and drinking
problems associated with these three theories. We expect to find developmental continuity …

… In this study, we sought to examine the relationship between a number of commonplace
SLEs capturing important life domains and excessive alcohol consumption before, during, and …