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Alcohol Drinking and Health in Ageing: A Global Scale Analysis of Older Individual Data through the Harmonised Dataset of ATHLOS.

  • Tyrovolas S Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Fundacion Sant Joan de Deu, 42, 08830 Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain.
  • Panaretos D Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University, 70 Eleftheriou Venizelou Ave, Attica, 176 61 Athens, Greece.
  • Daskalopoulou C Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Health Service and Population Research, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
  • Gine-Vazquez I Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Fundacion Sant Joan de Deu, 42, 08830 Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain.
  • Niubo AS Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Fundacion Sant Joan de Deu, 42, 08830 Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain.
  • Olaya B Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Fundacion Sant Joan de Deu, 42, 08830 Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain.
  • Bobak M Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB, UK.
  • Prince M Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Health Service and Population Research, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
  • Prina M Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Health Service and Population Research, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
  • Ayuso-Mateos JL Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Monforte de Lemos 3-5, Pabellón 11, 28029 Madrid, Spain.
  • Caballero FF Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
  • Garcia-Esquinas E Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
  • Holger A SPRING TECHNO GMBH & Co. KG, 28199 Bremen, Germany.
  • Scherbov S World Population Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria.
  • Sanderson W World Population Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria.
  • Gheno I AGE Platform, 1150 Brussels, Belgium.
  • Koupil I Department of Public Health Sciences, Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University, 114 19 Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Bickenbach J Department of Health Sciences and Health Policy, University of Lucerne, 6002 Lucerne, Switzerland.
  • Chatterji S Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Koskinen S Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), P.O. Box 30, FI-00271 Helsinki, Finland.
  • Raggi A Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, 20133 Milan, Italy.
  • Pajak A Department of Epidemiology and Population Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, 31-008 Krakow, Poland.
  • Tobiasz-Adamczyk B Department of Medical Sociology, Department of Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, 31-008 Krakow, Poland.
  • Haro JM Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Fundacion Sant Joan de Deu, 42, 08830 Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain.
  • Panagiotakos D Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University, 70 Eleftheriou Venizelou Ave, Attica, 176 61 Athens, Greece.
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  • 2020-06-18
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  • Nutrients. - 2020
ATHLOS
ageing
alcohol drinking
health status
older adults
English We investigated the relation between alcohol drinking and healthy ageing by means of a validated health status metric, using individual data from the Ageing Trajectories of Health: Longitudinal Opportunities and Synergies (ATHLOS) project. For the purposes of this study, the ATHLOS harmonised dataset, which includes information from individuals aged 65+ in 38 countries, was analysed (n = 135,440). Alcohol drinking was reflected by means of three harmonised variables: alcohol drinking frequency, current and past alcohol drinker. A set of 41 self-reported health items and measured tests were used to generate a specific health metric. In the harmonised dataset, the prevalence of current drinking was 47.5% while of past drinking was 26.5%. In the pooled sample, current alcohol drinking was positively associated with better health status among older adults ((b-coef (95% CI): 1.32(0.45 to 2.19)) and past alcohol drinking was inversely related (b-coef (95% CI): -0.83 (-1.51 to -0.16)) with health status. Often alcohol consumption appeared to be beneficial only for females in all super-regions except Africa, both age group categories (65-80 years old and 80+), both age group categories, as well as among all the financial status categories (all p < 0.05). Regional analysis pictured diverse patterns in the association for current and past alcohol drinkers. Our results report the need for specific alcohol intake recommendations among older adults that will help them maintain a better health status throughout the ageing process.
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