Alcohol drinking and health in ageing: A global scale analysis of older individual data through the harmonised dataset of ATHLOS

Stefanos Tyrovolas; Dimitris Panaretos; Christina Daskalopoulou; Iago Gine-Vazquez; Albert Sanchez Niubo; Beatriz Olaya; Martin Bobak; Martin Prince; Matthew Prina; Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos; Francisco Felix Caballero; Esther Garcia-Esquinas; Arndt Holger; Sergei Scherbov; Warren Sanderson; Ilenia Gheno; Ilona Koupil; Jerome Bickenbach; Somnath Chatterji; Seppo Koskinen; Alberto Raggi; Andrzej Pajak; Beata Tobiasz-Adamczyk; Josep Maria Haro; Demosthenes Panagiotakos

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Alcohol drinking and health in ageing: A global scale analysis of older individual data through the harmonised dataset of ATHLOS

Stefanos Tyrovolas^*, Dimitris Panaretos, Christina Daskalopoulou, Iago Gine-Vazquez, Albert Sanchez Niubo, Beatriz Olaya, Martin Bobak, Martin Prince, Matthew Prina, Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos, Francisco Felix Caballero, Esther Garcia-Esquinas, Arndt Holger, Sergei Scherbov, Warren Sanderson, Ilenia Gheno, Ilona Koupil, Jerome Bickenbach, Somnath Chatterji, Seppo KoskinenAlberto Raggi, Andrzej Pajak, Beata Tobiasz-Adamczyk, Josep Maria Haro, Demosthenes Panagiotakos

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We investigated the relation between alcohol drinking and healthy ageing by meansof a validated health status metric, using individual data from the Ageing Trajectories of Health: Longitudinal Opportunities and Synergies (ATHLOS) project. For the purposes of this study, the ATHLOS harmonised dataset, which includes information from individuals aged 65+ in 38 countries, was analysed (n = 135,440). Alcohol drinking was reﬂected by means of three harmonised variables: alcohol drinking frequency, current and past alcohol drinker. A set of 41 self-reported health items and measured tests were used to generate a speciﬁc health metric. In the harmonised dataset, the prevalence of current drinking was 47.5% while of past drinking was 26.5%. In the pooled sample, current alcohol drinking was positively associated with better health status among older adults ((b-coef (95% CI): 1.32(0.45 to 2.19)) and past alcohol drinking was inversely related (b-coef (95% CI): −0.83 (−1.51 to −0.16)) with health status. Often alcohol consumption appeared to be beneﬁcial only for females in all super-regions except Africa, both age group categories (65–80 years old and 80+), both age group categories, as well as among all the ﬁnancial status categories (all p < 0.05). Regional analysis pictured diverse patterns in the association for current and past alcohol drinkers. Our results report the need for speciﬁc alcohol intake recommendations among older adults that will help them maintain a better health status throughout the ageing process.

Original language	English
Article number	1746
Pages (from-to)	1-15
Number of pages	15
Journal	Nutrients
Volume	12
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12061746
Publication status	Published - Jun 2020

Keywords

Ageing
Alcohol drinking
ATHLOS
Health status
older adults

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Tyrovolas, S., Panaretos, D., Daskalopoulou, C., Gine-Vazquez, I., Niubo, A. S., Olaya, B., Bobak, M., Prince, M., Prina, M., Ayuso-Mateos, J. L., Caballero, F. F., Garcia-Esquinas, E., Holger, A., Scherbov, S., Sanderson, W., Gheno, I., Koupil, I., Bickenbach, J., Chatterji, S., ... Panagiotakos, D. (2020). Alcohol drinking and health in ageing: A global scale analysis of older individual data through the harmonised dataset of ATHLOS. Nutrients, 12(6), 1-15. Article 1746. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12061746

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Tyrovolas, S, Panaretos, D, Daskalopoulou, C, Gine-Vazquez, I, Niubo, AS, Olaya, B, Bobak, M, Prince, M , Prina, M, Ayuso-Mateos, JL, Caballero, FF, Garcia-Esquinas, E, Holger, A, Scherbov, S, Sanderson, W, Gheno, I, Koupil, I, Bickenbach, J, Chatterji, S, Koskinen, S, Raggi, A, Pajak, A, Tobiasz-Adamczyk, B, Haro, JM & Panagiotakos, D 2020, 'Alcohol drinking and health in ageing: A global scale analysis of older individual data through the harmonised dataset of ATHLOS', Nutrients, vol. 12, no. 6, 1746, pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12061746

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