The Neighborhood Alcohol Environment and At-Risk Drinking among African Americans

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• Alternative Title:
  Alcohol Clin Exp Res
• Personal Author:
  Theall, Katherine P. ; Lancaster, Brooke P. ; Lynch, Sara ; Haines, Robert T. ; Scribner, Scott ; Scribner, Richard ; Kishore, Vimal
• Description:
  Background
  
  Our objective was to examine whether components of the neighborhood alcohol environment—liquor store, on-premise outlet, convenience store, and supermarket densities—are positively associated with at-risk alcohol consumption among African American drinkers.
  
  Methods
  
  Multilevel cross-sectional sample of 321 African American women and men ages 21 to 65 years recruited from April 2002 to May 2003 from three community-based healthcare clinics in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
  
  Results
  
  The alcohol environment had a significant impact on at-risk alcohol consumption among African American drinkers, specifically liquor store density (adjusted OR = 3.11, 95% CI = 1.87, 11.07). Furthermore, the influence of the alcohol environment was much stronger for African American female drinkers (adjusted OR = 6.96, 95% CI = 1.38, 35.08).
  
  Conclusions
  
  Treatment and prevention programs should take into account the physical environment, and the concentration of outlets in minority neighborhoods must be addressed as it poses potential health risks to the residents of these neighborhoods.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adult Aged Alcohol Drinking Alcoholic Beverages Black Or African American Cross-Sectional Studies Female Humans Longitudinal Studies Male Middle Aged Residence Characteristics Risk Factors Social Environment Urban Population Young Adult

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• Source:
  Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 35(5):996-1003.
• Pubmed ID:
  21323681
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3083455
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  P60 AA009803/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States ; RC1 AA019329-01/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States ; 3P50 AA09803-08S1/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States ; K01 SH000002/SH/NCHS CDC HHS/United States ; 1K01SH000002-01/PHS HHS/United States ; RC1 AA019329/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States ; AA009803-08S1/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States ; P50 AA009803-08S1/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States ; R01 CA157565/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States ; P50 AA009803/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States ; AA019329-01/RC/CCR NIH HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  New Orleans, LA
• Volume:
  35
• Issue:
  5
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:569088a46f9b2eebc0612e9859576bfb5634ea93aff42020a7b595d161b6b6a1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/41829/cdc_41829_DS1.pdf
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