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ArticleSSM - population health2021

Racial disparities in alcohol-related liver disease mortality in a 75 year follow-up study of Michigan autoworkers.

Farah Allouch, Kevin T Chen, Liza Lutzker, Sadie Costello, Sally Picciotto, Ellen A Eisen

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Article in SSM - population health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Farah AllouchDivision of Epidemiology, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Kevin T ChenDivision of Epidemiology, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Liza LutzkerDivision of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Sadie CostelloDivision of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Sally PicciottoDivision of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Ellen A EisenDivision of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Berkeley Public Health Division · US

Funding

NIOSH CDC HHS T42 OH008429
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSuicide, drug overdose, and alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) mortality have been rising in the United States. While suicide and overdose have received a great deal of attention, far less public health concern has focused on chronic ALD. To address this gap, we examine ALD mortality rates, by race, in a cohort of autoworkers to describe trends over the past 75 years, from the peak in automobile manufacturing employment through its decline.

methodsBased on the United Autoworkers-General Motors (UAW-GM) cohort we estimated temporal trends in age-adjusted ALD mortality rates from 1941 through 2015 at three automobile manufacturing plants in Michigan. We compared these rates to county, state, and U.S. rates, directly standardized to the 2000 U.S. census, to assess the roles of race and employment on ALD mortality.

resultsThe overall age-adjusted ALD mortality rate among 41,097 male autoworkers peaked at 46.1 per 100,000 in the 1970s, followed by a gradual decline and a recent rise. Rates were slightly higher for black than white men until early 2000s, when rates increased only for white men. ALD mortality rates in the study cohort tracked national, state, and county rates for white men until the most recent time period, but were lower throughout the study period for black men, especially in the 1970s and 1980s.

conclusionsEmployment in automobile manufacturing may have offered some protection against death from ALD for black men, and loss of those manufacturing jobs may have impacted white men without a college degree more in recent decades.

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Alcohol-related liver diseasealcohol-related liver disease (ALD), United Autoworkers-General Motors (UAW-GM)Alcohol-related liver disease mortalityALD mortalityAutomobile manufacturingAutoworkersDeaths of despairOccupationalSubstance abuse

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PMID34401463
PMCPMC8353471
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