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Incidence of Alcohol Use Disorders Among Hispanic Subgroups in the USA
Author(s) -
Carlos F. RíosBedoya,
Diana Freile-Salinas
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
alcohol and alcoholism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.747
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1464-3502
pISSN - 0735-0414
DOI - 10.1093/alcalc/agu032
Subject(s) - demography , medicine , incidence (geometry) , ethnic group , poisson regression , relative risk , epidemiology , alcohol use disorder , gerontology , alcohol , confidence interval , population , environmental health , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , anthropology , sociology , optics
Hispanics are the largest ethnic minority group in the USA and a fairly heterogeneous group. But this heterogeneity has usually been ignored by grouping them into a single category. The objective of this study is to challenge that practice by providing alcohol use disorders (AUD) incidence and risk estimates across Hispanic subgroups.

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