Health Risk Factors Associated with Lifetime Abstinence from Alcohol in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Cohort.
William C KerrCamillia K LuiEdwina WilliamsYu YeThomas K GreenfieldE Anne LownPublished in: Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research (2017)
Alcohol-related health studies should utilize lifetime classifications of drinkers and abstainers, and, in doing so, should account for early-life socioeconomic adversity and childhood health factors or consider these as unmeasured confounders.