ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2013
Proximity of off-premise alcohol outlets and heavy alcohol consumption: a cohort study.
Article in Drug and alcohol dependence, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Data-Driven Exploratory Analysis of the Alcohol-Harm Paradox in South-East Wales.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Investigating the impacts of alcohol outlet zoning policy on alcohol consumption and access to non-alcoholic services: A spatial agent-based simulation.Health & place · 2025Article
- Most deprived Louisiana census tracts have higher hepatocellular carcinoma incidence and worse survival.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Article
- How Can We Measure Alcohol Outlet Density Around Schools? A Comparison Between Two Buffer-Based Methods.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2023Article
- Does the relationship between alcohol retail environment and alcohol outcomes vary by depressive symptoms? Findings from a U.S. Survey of Black, Hispanic and White drinkers.Addictive behaviors · 2023Article
- Alcohol outlets and alcohol consumption in changing environments: prevalence and changes over time.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2022Article
- GEOGRAPHICAL ACCESS TO RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA.Contemporary economic policy · 2021Article
- Looking Back and Moving Forward: The Evolution and Potential Opportunities for the Future of Alcohol Outlet Density Measurement.Addiction research & theory · 2021Article
- Using Zoning as a Public Health Tool to Reduce Alcohol Outlet Oversaturation, Promote Compliance, and Guide Future Enforcement: a Preliminary Analysis of Transform Baltimore.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2020Article
- Discrepancies in Local, State, and National Alcohol Outlet Listings: Implications for Research and Interventions.Substance use & misuse · 2020Article
- Policy-relevant behaviours predict heavier drinking and mediate the relationship with age, gender and education status: Analysis from the International Alcohol Control Study.Drug and alcohol review · 2018Article
- Is proximity to alcohol outlets associated with alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm in Denmark?Nordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift : NAT · 2018Article
- Alcohol distribution reforms and school proximity to liquor sales outlets in New Brunswick.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2018Article
- Increased Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Associated With Neighborhood Concentrated Disadvantage.Frontiers in oncology · 2018Article
- Neighborhood Typologies Associated with Alcohol Use among Adults in Their 30s: a Finite Mixture Modeling Approach.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2017Article
- Associations between access to alcohol outlets and alcohol intake and depressive symptoms in women from socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Australia.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Longitudinal associations of neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics and alcohol availability on drinking: Results from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).Social science & medicine (1982) · 2015Article
- Associations of Alcohol Availability and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Characteristics With Drinking: Cross-Sectional Results From the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).Substance use & misuse · 2015Article
- Alcohol outlet density, drinking contexts and intimate partner violence: a review of environmental risk factors.Journal of drug education · 2014Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundAvailability of alcohol has been associated with alcohol consumption in cross-sectional studies. We examined longitudinally whether change in proximity to off-premise (i.e., no consumption on the premises) beer and liquor outlets is associated with heavy alcohol consumption.
methodsDistances from 54,778 Finnish Public Sector study participants' homes to the nearest off-premise beer and liquor outlets were calculated using Global Positioning System-coordinates. Between-individual analyses were used to study the effects of distance to the nearest outlet on heavy alcohol use, and within-individual analyses to study the effects of a change in distance on change in heavy use.
resultsMean follow-up time in 2000-2009 was 6.8 (standard deviation 2.0) years. In a between-individual analysis, decrease from ≥500 m to <500 m (vs. remained ≥500 m) in the distance to the nearest beer outlet increased the likelihood of incident heavy alcohol use in women (odds ratio 1.23, 95% CI 1.05-1.44), but not in men. In a within-individual analysis decrease from 500 m to 0m in log-transformed continuous distance to the nearest beer outlet increased the odds of heavy alcohol consumption in women by 13% (odds ratio 1.13, 95% CI 1.01-1.27). For the corresponding change in distance to liquor outlet the increase was 3% (odds ratio 1.03, 95% CI 0.97-1.09).
conclusionsChange in distance from home to the nearest off-premise alcohol outlet affects the risk of heavy alcohol consumption in women. This evidence supports policies that restrict physical availability of alcohol.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.