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Trends in self-reported past alcoholic beverage consumption and ethanol intake from 1950 to 1995 observed in eight European countries participating in the European Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2007

K Klipstein-Grobusch ,
N Slimani ,
V Krogh ,
U Keil ,
H Boeing ,
K Overvad ,
A Tjønneland ,
F Clavel-Chapelon ,
A Thiébaut  and
J Linseisen
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K Klipstein-Grobusch*
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Arthur Scheunert-Allee 114–116, D-14558 Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany.
N Slimani
Affiliation:
Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, International Agency for Cancer Research, Lyon, France.
V Krogh
Affiliation:
Epidemiology Unit, National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy.
U Keil
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Germany.
H Boeing
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Arthur Scheunert-Allee 114–116, D-14558 Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany.
K Overvad
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
A Tjønneland
Affiliation:
Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark.
F Clavel-Chapelon
Affiliation:
INSERM, E3N–EPIC Group, Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.
A Thiébaut
Affiliation:
INSERM, E3N–EPIC Group, Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.
J Linseisen
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany.
MB Schulze
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Arthur Scheunert-Allee 114–116, D-14558 Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany.
P Lagiou
Affiliation:
Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Greece.
A Papadimitrou
Affiliation:
Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Greece.
C Saieva
Affiliation:
Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, CSPO, Scientific Institute of Tuscany, Florence, Italy.
F Veglia
Affiliation:
Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation, Turin, Italy.
HB Bueno-de-Mesquita
Affiliation:
Department for Chronic Disease Epidemiology, National Institute for Public Health and Environmental Protection, Bilthoven, The, Netherlands.
PHM Peeters
Affiliation:
Julius Center for General Practice and Patient Oriented Research, University of Utrecht, The, Netherlands.
M Kumle
Affiliation:
Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Norway.
M Brustad
Affiliation:
Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Norway.
C Martínez García
Affiliation:
Andalusian School of Public Health, Granada, Spain.
A Barricarte
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health of Navarra, Spain.
G Berglund
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
L Weinehall
Affiliation:
Epidemiology, Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden.
A Mulligan
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, UK.
N Allen
Affiliation:
Cancer Research UK, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, UK.
P Ferrari
Affiliation:
Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, International Agency for Cancer Research, Lyon, France.
E Riboli
Affiliation:
Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, International Agency for Cancer Research, Lyon, France.
*
*Corresponding author: Email klipst@mail.dife.de
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Abstract

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Objective:

To describe the trends of self-reported past consumption of alcoholic beverages and ethanol intake from 1950 to 1995 within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC).

Design:

Data on consumption of beer/cider, wine and liqueur/spirits were obtained retrospectively at age 20, 30 and 40 years to calculate average consumption and ethanol intake for the time periods 1950–1975 (at age 20), 1960–1985 (at age 30) and 1970–1995 (at age 40). Regression analysis was conducted with the time period data to assess trends in past alcoholic beverage consumption and ethanol intake with time.

Setting:

The EPIC project.

Subjects:

In total, 392 064 EPIC participants (275 249 women and 116 815 men) from 21 study centres in eight European countries.

Results:

Generally, increases in beer/cider consumption were observed for most EPIC centres for 1950–1975, 1960–1985 and 1970–1995. Trends in wine consumption differed according to geographical location: downward trends with time were observed for men in southern European EPIC centres, upward trends for those in middle/northern European study centres. For women, similar but less pronounced trends were observed. Because wine consumption was the major contributor to ethanol intake for both men and women in most study centres, time trends for ethanol intake showed a similar geographical pattern to that of wine consumption.

Conclusion:

The different trends in alcoholic beverage consumption and ethanol intake suggest that information depicting lifetime history of ethanol intake should be included in analyses of the relationship between ethanol and chronic diseases, particularly in multi-centre studies such as EPIC.

Keywords

EPIC studyEthanolAlcoholic beveragesBeerWineSpiritsCross-sectional analysesTime trends24-Hour dietary recallEurope
Type
Research Article
Information
Public Health Nutrition , Volume 5 , Issue 6b , December 2002 , pp. 1297 - 1310
Copyright
Copyright © CABI Publishing 2002

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