TY - JOUR
T1 - Drinking history and risk of fatal injury
T2 - Comparison among specific injury causes
AU - Chen, Li Hui
AU - Baker, Susan P.
AU - Li, Guohua
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is based in part upon data collected under Contract DTNH22-97-H-05278 with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The research was supported primarily by a grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R03 AA 13333-02) and in part by a grant from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (grant #CCR302486).
PY - 2005/3
Y1 - 2005/3
N2 - The effect of acute alcohol use on injury risk is well documented, but the relationship between drinking history and fatal injury has not been adequately studied. The authors performed a case-control analysis to explore the association between drinking history and specific causes of fatal injury. Cases (n = 5549) were persons who died from injury, selected from the 1993 National Mortality Followback Survey (NMFS); controls (n = 42,698) were a representative sample of the general population, selected from the 1992 National Longitudinal Alcohol Epidemiologic Survey (NLAES). Current drinkers comprised 59% of the cases compared with 44% of the controls. After adjustment for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, marital status, employment, and drug use, the odds ratio (OR) of dying from drowning for current drinkers was 3.48 (95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.94, 6.25), the highest among all causes of injury studied. The lowest adjusted odds ratio associated with current drinking was for falls (OR = 1.38; 95% CI = 1.05, 1.82). Being a current drinker increased the risk of dying from suicide more for females (OR = 4.04; 95% CI = 1.64, 9.93) than for males (OR = 1.45; 95% CI = 1.20, 1.74). The authors conclude that drinking history is associated with a significantly increased risk of all types of fatal injury.
AB - The effect of acute alcohol use on injury risk is well documented, but the relationship between drinking history and fatal injury has not been adequately studied. The authors performed a case-control analysis to explore the association between drinking history and specific causes of fatal injury. Cases (n = 5549) were persons who died from injury, selected from the 1993 National Mortality Followback Survey (NMFS); controls (n = 42,698) were a representative sample of the general population, selected from the 1992 National Longitudinal Alcohol Epidemiologic Survey (NLAES). Current drinkers comprised 59% of the cases compared with 44% of the controls. After adjustment for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, marital status, employment, and drug use, the odds ratio (OR) of dying from drowning for current drinkers was 3.48 (95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.94, 6.25), the highest among all causes of injury studied. The lowest adjusted odds ratio associated with current drinking was for falls (OR = 1.38; 95% CI = 1.05, 1.82). Being a current drinker increased the risk of dying from suicide more for females (OR = 4.04; 95% CI = 1.64, 9.93) than for males (OR = 1.45; 95% CI = 1.20, 1.74). The authors conclude that drinking history is associated with a significantly increased risk of all types of fatal injury.
KW - Alcohol drinking
KW - Injury
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U2 - 10.1016/j.aap.2004.09.001
DO - 10.1016/j.aap.2004.09.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 15667810
AN - SCOPUS:12344287116
SN - 0001-4575
VL - 37
SP - 245
EP - 251
JO - Accident Analysis and Prevention
JF - Accident Analysis and Prevention
IS - 2
ER -