• M Her and J Rehm.
• Social and Evaluation Department, Addiction Research Foundation, Toronto, Canada. MHer@arf.org
• Addiction. 1998 Sep 1; 93 (9): 1335-40.

AimTo test the relationship between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality.DesignDataYearly mortality rates and per capita consumption from 25 European countries between 1982 and 1990. STATISTICAL MODELS: This paper employs time-series cross-sectional data to model the relationships between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality. The data are derived from 25 European countries in the 1980s. The statistical analyses controlling cross-sectional correlation and timewise autoregression were used to implement the econometric modelling.FindingsIncreases (decreases) in the per capita consumption of 1 litre of pure alcohol were associated with increases (decreases) of 1.3% in all-cause mortality rates. The beverage-specific analyses indicated a significant relationship between consumption of beer and all-cause mortality only.ConclusionThe data show that per capita alcohol consumption, according to reported levels in Europe, is related to all-cause mortality and is thus of relevance to public health.

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