1. Trends in self-reported past alcoholic beverage consumption and ethanol intake from 1950 to 1995 observed in eight European countries participating in the European Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)
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J. Linseisen, Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, Calogero Saieva, Heiner Boeing, Magritt Brustad, Aurelio Barricarte, Fabrizio Veglia, Matthias B. Schulze, P. H. M. Peeters, Nadia Slimani, C. Martínez Garcia, Göran Berglund, Ulrich Keil, Elio Riboli, Merethe Kumle, A. Papadimitrou, Kim Overvad, Pagona Lagiou, H. B. Bueno-De-Mesquita, Naomi E. Allen, Lars Weinehall, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Anne Tjønneland, Pietro Ferrari, Angela A. Mulligan, Vittorio Krogh, Anne C. M. Thiébaut, [Klipstein-Grobusch,K, Boeing,H, Schulze,MB] Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany. [Slimani,N, Ferrari,P, Riboli,E] Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, International Agency for Cancer Research, Lyon, France. [Krogh,V] Epidemiology Unit, National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy. [Keil,U] Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, German. [Overvad,K] Department of Epidemiology, University of Aarhus, Denmark. [Tjønneland,A] Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark. [Clavel-Chapelon,F, Thiébaut,A] INSERM, E3N–EPIC Group, Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France. [Linseisen,J] Department of Clinical Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany. [Lagiou,P, Papadimitrou,A] Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Greece. [Saieva,C] Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, CSPO, Scientific Institute of Tuscany, Florence, Italy. [Veglia,F] Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation, Turin, Italy. [Bueno-de-Mesquita,HB] Department for Chronic Disease Epidemiology, National Institute for Public Health and Environmental Protection, Bilthoven, The Netherlands. [Peeters,PHM] Julius Center for General Practice and Patient Oriented Research, University of Utrecht, The Netherland. [Kumle,M, Brustad,M] Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Norway. [Martínez García,C] Andalusian School of Public Health, Granada, Spain. [Barricarte,A] Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health of Navarra, Spain. [Berglund,G] Department of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden. [Weinehal,G] Epidemiology, Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Sweden. [Mulligan,A] Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, UK. [Allen,N] Cancer Research UK, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, UK., The work described in this paper was carried out with financial support of the ‘Europe Against Cancer’ Programme of the European Commission (SANCO), Ligue contre le Cancer (France), Société 3M (France), Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institute Gustave Roussy, German Cancer Aid, German Cancer Research Centre, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Danish Cancer Society, Health Research Fund (FIS) of the Spanish Ministry of Health, the Spanish Regional Governments of Andalucia, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia and Navarra, Cancer Research UK, Medical Research Council, UK, Stroke Association, UK, British Heart Foundation, Department of Health, UK, Food Standards Agency, UK, Wellcome Trust, UK, Greek Ministry of Health, Greek Ministry of Education, Italian Association for Research on Cancer, Italian National Research Council, Dutch Ministry of Public Health,Welfare and Sports, Dutch Prevention Funds, LK Research Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund, Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Scientific Council, Regional Government of Skane, Sweden, Norwegian Cancer Society, and Norwegian Research Council. Partial support for the publication of this supplement was provided by the Centre de Recherche et d’Information Nutritionnelles (CERIN).
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Male ,Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Investigative Techniques::Epidemiologic Methods::Epidemiologic Study Characteristics as Topic::Epidemiologic Studies::Case-Control Studies::Retrospective Studies [Medical Subject Headings] ,Medicine (miscellaneous) ,Wine ,Distribución por Edad ,Estudios Retrospectivos ,EPIC ,Consumo de Bebidas Alcohólicas ,Organisms::Eukaryota::Animals::Chordata::Vertebrates::Mammals::Primates::Haplorhini::Catarrhini::Hominidae::Humans [Medical Subject Headings] ,Recuerdo Mental ,Technology, Industry, Agriculture::Food and Beverages::Beverages::Alcoholic Beverages::Beer [Medical Subject Headings] ,Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Investigative Techniques::Epidemiologic Methods::Data Collection::Health Surveys::Population Surveillance [Medical Subject Headings] ,Medicine ,Masculino ,24-Hour dietary recall ,Nutrition and Dietetics ,Adulto ,Femenino ,Vino ,Beer ,Geographicals::Geographic Locations::Europe [Medical Subject Headings] ,Time trends ,European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition ,Humanos ,Europe ,Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Investigative Techniques::Epidemiologic Methods::Epidemiologic Study Characteristics as Topic::Epidemiologic Studies::Cross-Sectional Studies [Medical Subject Headings] ,Disciplines and Occupations::Social Sciences::Demography::Sex Distribution [Medical Subject Headings] ,Population Surveillance ,Cerveza ,Female ,Distribución por Sexo ,Adult ,Alcohol Drinking ,Estudios Transversales ,Check Tags::Male [Medical Subject Headings] ,Psychiatry and Psychology::Psychological Phenomena and Processes::Mental Processes::Learning::Memory::Mental Recall [Medical Subject Headings] ,Spirits ,Age Distribution ,Environmental health ,Named Groups::Persons::Age Groups::Adult [Medical Subject Headings] ,Humans ,Europa (Continente) ,ddc:610 ,Disciplines and Occupations::Social Sciences::Demography::Age Distribution [Medical Subject Headings] ,Sex Distribution ,Retrospective Studies ,Consumption (economics) ,Ethanol ,business.industry ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Alcoholic beverage consumption ,Vigilancia de la Población ,Technology, Industry, Agriculture::Food and Beverages::Beverages::Alcoholic Beverages::Wine [Medical Subject Headings] ,EPIC study ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Check Tags::Female [Medical Subject Headings] ,Mental Recall ,Psychiatry and Psychology::Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms::Behavior::Drinking Behavior::Alcohol Drinking [Medical Subject Headings] ,Alcoholic beverages ,Ethanol intake ,business ,Cross-sectional analyses - Abstract
Objective:To describe the trends of self-reported past consumption of alcoholic beverages and ethanol intake from 1950 to 1995 within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC).Design:Data on consumption of beer/cider, wine and liqueur/spirits were obtained retrospectively at age 20, 30 and 40 years to calculate average consumption and ethanol intake for the time periods 1950–1975 (at age 20), 1960–1985 (at age 30) and 1970–1995 (at age 40). Regression analysis was conducted with the time period data to assess trends in past alcoholic beverage consumption and ethanol intake with time.Setting:The EPIC project.Subjects:In total, 392 064 EPIC participants (275 249 women and 116 815 men) from 21 study centres in eight European countries.Results:Generally, increases in beer/cider consumption were observed for most EPIC centres for 1950–1975, 1960–1985 and 1970–1995. Trends in wine consumption differed according to geographical location: downward trends with time were observed for men in southern European EPIC centres, upward trends for those in middle/northern European study centres. For women, similar but less pronounced trends were observed. Because wine consumption was the major contributor to ethanol intake for both men and women in most study centres, time trends for ethanol intake showed a similar geographical pattern to that of wine consumption.Conclusion:The different trends in alcoholic beverage consumption and ethanol intake suggest that information depicting lifetime history of ethanol intake should be included in analyses of the relationship between ethanol and chronic diseases, particularly in multi-centre studies such as EPIC.
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