OBJECTIVES Alcohol drinking is associated with ill health but less is known about its contribution to overall functioning. We aimed to examine whether alcohol drinking predicts self-reported mental and physical functioning 5-7 years later. DESIGN A prospective cohort study. SETTING Helsinki, Finland. PARTICIPANTS 40-year-old to 60-year-old employees of the City of Helsinki (5301 women and...

OBJECTIVE College student survey data were examined to assess the impact of campus levels of heavy episodic drinking on nonheavy episodic drinking college students. METHOD Analyses are based on a survey mailed to a random sample of college students at 140 American colleges. A total of 17,592 students (69%) at participating colleges responded. The study defined "heavy" drinking as the consumpt...

The purpose of this study is to clarify the relationship between hereditary predisposition and social-psychological factors in terms of drinking behavior of Japanese male students. The subjects were 123 male students who belonged to athletic clubs of K university in 1993. Regular drinking was evaluated as "drinking at home or with intimate friends" and party drinking as "drinking at club partie...

Acculturation to U.S. society has been associated with an increase in drinking and binge drinking among Hispanics. This paper examines the association between acculturation and three drinking-related outcomes: average number of drinks consumed, binge drinking, and drinking 12 drinks or more in a single day in four major Hispanic national groups. The 2006 Hispanic Americans Baseline Alcohol Surv...

AIMS Although readiness to change (RTC) is cited as a key mechanism underlying drinking behavior change, empirical evidence supporting RTC as a predictor of college drinking has been mixed. Considering methodological limitations of previous studies, the current aim was to conduct a more comprehensive test of longitudinal relationships between readiness to change and college drinking. DESIGN I...

background: a laboratory study was conducted to investigate the ability of a special type of strongly basic resin mp500ws for the removal of nitrate from different waters. methods: two different types of point-of-use (pou) devices containing an identical resin were used. mp500ws known as macro porous was used in pou devices for removal of high concentrations of nitrate and sulfate ions from wat...

This study assessed whether persons who begin drinking at younger ages are more likely to report drunk driving and alcohol-related crash involvement over the life course, even after controlling analytically for diagnosis of alcohol dependence, years of drinking alcohol, and other personal characteristics associated with the age respondents started drinking. A national survey asked 42,862 respon...

AIMS To compare drinking habits and to examine differences between drinking cultures in different regions and countries in Europe; to examine gender differences in drinking habits and to compare them over countries. METHODS Data consisted of independently conducted, centrally analysed surveys in the general population aged 20-64 years in 14 European countries. Central measures were abstention...