ArticleBMC public health2013
Associations between heavy episodic drinking and alcohol related injuries: a case control study.
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- Patterns of Harmful Alcohol Consumption among Truck Drivers: Implications for Occupational Health and Work Safety from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Pooled it
- Do socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity modify the relationship between alcohol use and unintentional injury mortality?Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2025Article
- Assessing Heavy Episodic Drinking: A Random Survey of 18 to 34-Year-Olds in Four Cities in Four Different Continents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Simultaneous Alcohol and Marijuana Use Among Young Adult Drinkers: Age-Specific Changes in Prevalence from 1977 to 2016.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2018Article
- The epidemiology of mild traumatic brain injury: the Trondheim MTBI follow-up study.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2018Article
- 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
- Parental drinking and adverse outcomes in children: A scoping review of cohort studies.Drug and alcohol review · 2016Article
- Driving license regranting in DUI subjects: Road accident variables and predictive factors of substance use disorder.Science progressArticle
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Abstract
backgroundAlcohol is a significant risk factor for injuries. This study addresses 1) whether the risk of alcohol related injury increases with frequency of heavy episodic drinking (HED) in a linear fashion, and 2) whether a small group of high risk drinkers accounts for the majority of alcohol related injuries.
methodsWe applied a case - control design. Cases were BAC positive injured patients (n = 534) and controls were respondents to a general population survey in Norway (n = 1947). Age and gender adjusted association between self-reported past year HED frequency and alcohol related injury risk was estimated in logistic regression models for all alcohol related injuries and for violence injuries and accident injuries separately.
resultsAn increase in HED was associated with an increase in risk of alcohol related injury, resembling a linear risk function. The small fraction of high risk drinkers (6.6%) accounted for 41.6% of all alcohol related injuries, thus lending support to the validity of the prevention paradox.
conclusionThere is a strong relationship between frequency of heavy episodic drinking and risk of alcohol related injuries, yet the majority of alcohol related injuries are found among drinkers who are not in the high risk group.
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