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The relationship between alcohol use and long-term cognitive decline in middle and late life: a longitudinal analysis using UK Biobank
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Background
Using UK Biobank data, this study sought to explain the causal relationship between alcohol intake and cognitive decline in middle and older aged populations.
Methods
Data from 13,342 men and women, aged between 40 and 73 years were used in regression analysis that tested the functional relationship and impact of alcohol on cognitive performance. Performance was measured using mean reaction time and intra-individual variation in reaction time, collected in response to a perceptual matching task. Covariates included body mass index, physical activity, tobacco use, socioeconomic status, education and baseline cognitive function.
Results
A restricted cubic spline regression with three knots showed how the linear (β1=-0.048, 95% CI -0.105 to -0.030) and non-linear effects (β2=0.035, 95% CI 0.007 to 0.059) of alcohol use on mean reaction time and intra-individual variation in reaction time (β1=-0.055, 95% CI -0.125 to -0.034; β2=0.034, 95% CI 0.002 to 0.064) were significant adjusting for covariates. Cognitive function declined as alcohol use increased beyond 10g/day. Decline was more apparent as age increased.
Conclusions
The relationship between alcohol use and cognitive function is non-linear. Consuming more than one UK standard unit of alcohol per day is detrimental to cognitive performance and is more pronounced in older populations.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1093/pubmed/fdx186
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- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Journal of Public Health More from this journal
- Volume:
- 40
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 304-311
- Publication date:
- 2018-01-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-12-11
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1741-3850
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1741-3842
- Pmid:
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29325150
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English
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- Piumatti
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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