Alcohol-related mortality following the loss of a child: a register-based follow-up study from Norway.
Solveig Glestad ChristiansenAnne ReneflotKim Stene-LarsenLars Johan HaugePublished in: BMJ open (2020)
This study provides evidence of an elevated alcohol-related mortality among parents who have lost a child compared with non-bereaved parents. Although strongly attenuated, there is still an association when adjusting for genetic predisposition for alcohol problems as well as childhood environment using sibling fixed-effect models.