Journal
NUTRIENTS
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nu12061746
Keywords
alcohol drinking; health status; ageing; older adults; ATHLOS
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Funding
- five-year Ageing Trajectories of Health: Longitudinal Opportunities and Synergies (ATHLOS) project
- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [635316]
- Wellcome Trust [GR066133/GR080002, WT064947, WT081081]
- European Research Council [340755]
- US Alzheimer's Association
- WHO
- FONDACIT (Venezuela)
- Puerto Rico State Government
- Medical Research Council [MR/K021907/1]
- South Australian Health Commission
- Australian Rotary Health Research Fund
- US National Institute on Aging [AG 08523-02]
- Office for the Ageing (SA)
- Elderly Citizens Homes (SA)
- National Health and Medical Research Council [NHMRC 22922]
- Premiers Science Research Fund (SA)
- Australian Research Council [DP0879152, DP130100428]
- Hellenic Cardiology Society
- Hellenic Atherosclerosis Society
- European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) [223071]
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III-FIS [PS09/00295, PS09/01845, PI12/01490, PI13/00059, PI16/00218, PI16/01073]
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation ACI-Promociona [ACI2009-1010]
- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 'AWay to Build Europe' grant [PI12/01490, PI13/00059]
- Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III
- Polish Ministry for Science and Higher Education grant [1277/7PR/UE/2009/]
- Jagiellonian University Medical College grant [K/ZDS/005241]
- Sanofi-Aventis
- Ministry of Health of Spain
- FIS [12/1166]
- Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red de Epidemiologia y Salud Publica (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III
- U.S. National Institute of Aging
- National Centre for Social Research
- University College London (UCL)
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
- US National Institute of Aging [1RO1AG23522]
- MacArthur Foundation Initiative on Social Upheaval and Health
- National Institute on Aging [NIA U01AG009740]
- Social Security Administration
- Korea Employment Information Service (KEIS)
- Korea Labor Institute's KLOSA Team
- National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging [NIH R01AG018016]
- INEGI in Mexico
- U.S. National Institute on Aging
- European Commission through FP5 [QLK6-CT-2001-00360]
- European Commission through FP6 [SHARE-I3: RII-CT-2006-062193, COMPARE: CIT5-CT-2005-028857, SHARELIFE: CIT4-CT-2006-028812]
- European Commission through FP7 [211909, 227822, 261982]
- German Ministry of Education and Research
- Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science
- U.S. National Institute on Aging [U01_AG09740-13S2, P01_AG005842, P01_AG08291, P30_AG12815, R21_AG025169, Y1-AG-4553-01, IAG_BSR06-11, OGHA_04-064, HHSN271201300071C]
- Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE) [2006-1518, 2013-1084]
- Swedish Research Council (VR) [2013-5104, 2013-5474]
- Foundation for Education and European Culture
- Miguel Servet programme [CP18/00006]
- Fondos Europeos de Desarrollo Regional
- Italian Ministry of Health
- [OGHA 04034785]
- [YA1323-08-CN-0020]
- [Y1-AG-1005-01]
- [R01-AG034479]
- [IR21-AG034263-0182]
- European Research Council (ERC) [340755] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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We investigated the relation between alcohol drinking and healthy ageing by means of 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 (allp< 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.
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