ArticleAlcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)2018
Fathers' Alcohol Consumption and Long-Term Risk for Mortality in Offspring.
Article in Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- Alcohol Consumption Patterns: A Systematic Review of Demographic and Sociocultural Influencing Factors.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Paternal and Maternal Problem Drinking and Lifetime Problem Drinking of Their Adult Children.Twin research and human genetics : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies · 2023Article
- Mortality in adult children of parents with alcohol use disorder: a nationwide register study.European journal of epidemiology · 2022Article
- Prevalence of Parental Alcohol Problems among a General Population Sample of 28,047 Norwegian Adults: Evidence for a Socioeconomic Gradient.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- The new suit of the Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD): A well-tailored costume for tackling research and challenges ahead.Nordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift : NAT · 2020Article
- Alcohol-related mortality following the loss of a child: a register-based follow-up study from Norway.BMJ open · 2020Article
- Intergenerational transmission of alcohol misuse: mediation and interaction by school performance in a Swedish birth cohort.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2020Article
- Fathers' alcohol use and suicidal behaviour in offspring during youth and young adulthood.Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica · 2019Article
- Association of Constellations of Parental Risk With Children's Subsequent Anxiety and Depression: Findings From a HUNT Survey and Health Registry Study.JAMA pediatrics · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
aimThis study examined associations between fathers' alcohol consumption and risk for total and cause-specific mortality in offspring. SHORT SUMMARY: We examined the associations between fathers' alcohol consumption and total and cause-specific mortality in adult offspring. Fathers' alcohol consumption was associated with increased risk of alcohol-related mortality in offspring. The association appeared to be weaker for causes of death in which alcohol plays a smaller, or less direct, role.
methodsData on fathers' alcohol consumption, and offspring's risky use of alcohol, smoking, mental health and contact with police/childcare authorities were collected among 46,284 men (sons) aged 18-20 years, during conscription for compulsory military training in 1969/70. Data on offspring mortality were obtained from the National Cause of Death register, 1971-2008. The mortality outcomes included total mortality, alcohol-related causes of death and violent causes of death (categorized into suicides vs violent/external causes excluding suicides).
resultsCompared to sons whose fathers never used alcohol, the risk for total and alcohol-related mortality among sons increased with the father's consumption level. The risk of violent death was significantly elevated among sons whose fathers drank alcohol occasionally or often, but the risk of suicide increased in the highest consumption category only. After adjustment for covariates, the results remained for alcohol-related mortality whereas they were significantly attenuated, or disappeared, for total mortality, violent death and suicide.
conclusionsFathers' alcohol consumption is associated with increased risk of alcohol-related mortality in the offspring. Alcohol use among fathers also increases the offspring's risk of later total mortality, suicide and violent death, but these associations appear to be mediated or confounded by factors related to parental drinking and/or adverse childhood psychosocial circumstances.
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.