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Statistical modeling of volume of alcohol exposure for epidemiological studies of population health: the US example

Jürgen Rehm1,2,3*, Tara Kehoe1,4, Gerrit Gmel1, Fred Stinson5, Bridget Grant5 and Gerhard Gmel1,6,7,8

Author Affiliations

1 Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), 33 Russell Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2S1, Canada

2 Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 6th Floor, Health Sciences Building, 155 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 3M7, Canada

3 Institute for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Chemnitzer Str. 46 D-01187 Dresden, Germany

4 Department of Statistics, University of Toronto, 100 St. George St, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G3, Canada

5 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism/NIH, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biometry, Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research, 5635 Fishers Lane, Rockville MD 20852, USA

6 Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems PO Box 870, 1001 Lausanne, Switzerland

7 Alcohol Treatment Center, Lausanne University Hospital, Mont-Paisible 16, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland

8 University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK

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Population Health Metrics 2010, 8:3 doi:10.1186/1478-7954-8-3

Published: 4 March 2010

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Additional file 1:

Description of key parameters on volume of alcohol exposure from NESARC (weighted to be representative for the population).

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