Alcohol consumption, heavy drinking, and mortality: Rethinking the J‐shaped curve

AD Plunk, H Syed‐Mohammed… - Alcoholism: Clinical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… pattern operationalized as the frequency of both heavy and nonheavy drinking occasions.
We define heavy drinking as any occasion in which an individual consumes 5 or more drinks, …

Alcohol consumption and problems: the relevance of drinking patterns

M Russell, JM Light… - Alcoholism: Clinical and …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… frequencies) were estimated in overlapping subsets of the population reporting each of
the 41 problems, and mean usual quantities and heavy drinking rates were plotted against …

Alcohol consumption, drinking patterns, and ischemic heart disease: a narrative review of meta-analyses and a systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of …

M Roerecke, J Rehm - BMC medicine, 2014 - Springer
… -analyses, and individual studies on alcohol consumption and IHD risk in a narrative review.
Furthermore, we meta-analyze the role of heavy drinking patterns in reference to lifetime …

Average volume of alcohol consumption, patterns of drinking, and all-cause mortality: results from the US National Alcohol Survey

J Rehm, TK Greenfield, JD Rogers - American Journal of …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
… The authors found a significant influence of drinking alcohol on … of consumption were
divided into people with and without heavy drinking occasions, serving as an indicator of drinking

The relationship between reasons for drinking alcohol and alcohol consumption: An interactional approach

A Abbey, MJ Smith, RO Scott - Addictive behaviors, 1993 - Elsevier
… of reasons for drinking alcohol and situational factors on alcohol consumption. Standardized
… variables: total monthly alcohol consumption, frequency of heavy drinking, and frequency of …

Reduction in heavy drinking as a treatment outcome in alcohol dependence

DR Gastfriend, JC Garbutt, HM Pettinati… - Journal of substance …, 2007 - Elsevier
… the monitoring of the rates of heavy drinking in a population as a priority for public health.
Measurement of the quantity and the frequency of alcohol consumption has provided a clearer …

The prevalence of alcohol consumption and heavy drinking among people with HIV in the United States: results from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study.

FH Galvan, EG Bing, JA Fleishman, AS London… - … of studies on alcohol, 2002 - jsad.com
… of any alcohol consumption and heavy drinking among in… associated with alcohol
consumption and heavy drinking in … of any alcohol consumption and heavy drinking. Logistic …

Cardiovascular risks and benefits of moderate and heavy alcohol consumption

J Fernandez-Sola - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2015 - nature.com
… Although definitions of light, moderate, and heavy drinking are arbitrary, in this Review …
These functions were further impaired in alcoholics with heavier alcohol consumption (TLDE ≥15 …

Hook'em horns and heavy drinking: Alcohol use and collegiate sports

DJ Neal, K Fromme - Addictive behaviors, 2007 - Elsevier
… Among heavier drinkers, the degree to which alcohol consumption was associated with
an increased likelihood of engaging in behavioral risks was relatively constant across home …

The loss of metabolic control on alcohol drinking in heavy drinking alcohol-dependent subjects

P de Timary, PD Cani, J Duchemin, AM Neyrinck… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
… to the fact that alcohol-dependent (AD) subjects, or at least those who drink beer, often
replace food consumption with substantial alcohol consumption. Previous epidemiological …