In examining this possibility, we found no evidence to support an association
between heavy alcohol use (using binary measures of maternal and partner's alcohol use) and offspring conduct and emotional problems.
Not exact matches
Cox regression was
used to quantify the association
between running and mortality after adjusting for baseline age, sex, examination year, body mass index, current smoking,
heavy alcohol drinking, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, parental CVD, and levels of other physical activities.
Although coffee consumption was inversely associated with diabetes, it was also positively associated with a number of behaviors that are considered unhealthy and are associated with an increased risk of death, such as tobacco smoking, 35 consumption of red meat, 36 and
heavy alcohol use.37 Tobacco smoking was the strongest confounder in the multivariate analysis, and the inverse association
between coffee consumption and mortality tended to be stronger among persons who had never smoked or were former smokers than among those who were current smokers, suggesting that residual confounding by smoking status, if present, attenuated the inverse associations
between coffee drinking and mortality in our study.
However, significant differences were found
between the control and full intervention groups for
heavy alcohol use in the past year.
Research in a remote WA Aboriginal population demonstrated that
heavy alcohol use was associated with psychotic symptoms.12 However, comparison to this survey's findings may be complicated by differences
between Cape York and the Torres Strait, including recent legislative restrictions on
alcohol in Cape York.
Although many studies support the finding that improving self - esteem is an important component of substance abuse prevention (Devlin, 1995; Rodney et al., 1996), some studies found no support for the association
between self - esteem and
heavy alcohol use (Poikolainen et al., 2001).
Collapsing across gender, adolescent - reported externalizing behavior mediated both the relation
between parent alcoholism and growth in
heavy alcohol use and the relation
between parent antisociality and growth in
heavy alcohol use.
There was a suggestion of an association
between maternal
alcohol use examining
heavy parental
alcohol use and conduct problems limited to childhood compared to low conduct problems (OR = 1.56, 95 % CI = 1.05, 2.34).
First, do internalizing symptoms and externalizing behavior each mediate the relations
between parent psychopathology (alcoholism, antisocial personality disorder, and affective disorder) and growth in adolescent
heavy alcohol use?
Parent - reported externalizing behavior only mediated the relation
between parent antisociality and growth in
heavy alcohol use in males.
Though individual, family and in particular peer risk indicators all explain some of the variance in substance
use, the differences
between adolescents in SEB / RYC compared with SEL remained significant and substantial, with the exception of
heavy alcohol consumption.