ArticleAddiction (Abingdon, England)2013
Risk of injury after alcohol consumption from case-crossover studies in five countries from the Americas.
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- The association between the time of alcohol drinking and injury risk in Thailand: a cross-sectional emergency department study.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2021Article
- Male-female differences in the onset of heavy drinking episode soon after first full drink in contemporary United States: From early adolescence to young adulthood.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2018Article
- A dose-response estimate for acute alcohol use and risk of suicide attempt.Addiction biology · 2017Article
- Alcohol and Road Traffic Injuries in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Case-Crossover Study.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2017Article
- Type and Context of Alcohol-Related Injury among Patients Presenting to Emergency Departments in a Caribbean Country.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
- Alcohol use among fatally injured victims in São Paulo, Brazil: bridging the gap between research and health services in developing countries.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2017Article
- Non-Fatal Injury in Thailand From 2005 to 2013: Incidence Trends and Links to Alcohol Consumption Patterns in the Thai Cohort Study.Journal of epidemiology · 2016Article
- Alcohol Attributable Fraction for Injury Morbidity from the Dose-Response Relationship of Acute Alcohol Consumption: Emergency Department Data from 18 Countries.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2015Article
- Relative risk of injury from acute alcohol consumption: modeling the dose-response relationship in emergency department data from 18 countries.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2015Article
- A Comparison of two Case-crossover Methods for Studying the Dose-Response Relationship Between Alcohol and Injury.Contemporary drug problemsArticle
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Abstract
aimsThis study aimed to: (i) provide relative risk (RR) estimates between acute alcohol use and injuries from emergency departments (EDs) in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Guyana, Nicaragua and Panama, and (ii) test whether the RR differs if two control periods for the estimates were used.
designCase-crossover methodology was used to obtain estimates of the RR of having an injury within 6 hours after drinking alcohol, using a pair-matching design with control periods of the same time of day on the day prior to injury, and the same time of day and day of week during the week prior to injury.
settingEDs.
participantsA total of 2503 injured patients from EDs were interviewed between 2010 and 2011, with a response rate of 92.6%. MEASUREMENTS: Number of drinks consumed within 6 hours prior to the injury and in the two control periods.
findingsThe RR of injury after drinking alcohol was 4.38 [95% confidence interval (CI): 3.29-5.84] using the prior week as the control period, and 5.35 (CI: 3.50-8.17) using the prior day as a control period. The RR was 5.08 (CI: 4.15-6.23) in multiple matching. Those drinking one to two drinks had a RR of 4.85 (CI: 3.12-7.54); those drinking three to five drinks an RR of 5.00 (CI: 3.47-7.18); those drinking six to 15 drinks an RR of 4.54 (CI: 3.36-6.14); and those drinking 16 or more drinks an RR of 10.42 (CI: 4.38-24.79).
conclusionsAs in other countries, drinking alcohol is an important trigger for an injury in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Guyana, Nicaragua and Panama.
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