PMID- 25047919
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20151020
LR  - 20140828
IS  - 1360-0443 (Electronic)
IS  - 0965-2140 (Linking)
VI  - 109
IP  - 10
DP  - 2014 Oct
TI  - Hazardous birthday drinking among young people: population-based impacts on 
      emergency department and in-patient hospital admissions.
PG  - 1667-75
LID - 10.1111/add.12626 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND AND AIMS: There is growing concern about the possible adverse health 
      impacts of binge drinking during birthday celebrations among adolescents and 
      young adults. We estimate the impacts of birthday alcohol use on adolescent and 
      young adult in-patient/emergency department (ED) hospital admissions. DESIGN: We 
      employed Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) intervention analysis 
      to assess whether the rate of ICD-10 alcohol-use-disorder (AUD) events per 1000 
      in-patient/ED admissions increased significantly during birthday weeks. SETTING: 
      All in-patient/ED admissions in Ontario, Canada from 1 April 2002 to 31 March 
      2007. PARTICIPANTS: Individuals aged 12-30 years. MEASUREMENTS: AUD events per 
      1000 in-patient/ED admissions by age in weeks. FINDINGS: Multiple increases were 
      found. The largest occurred during the birthday week of 19 years of age, the 
      beginning of the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) in Ontario: AUD admission 
      rates increased (spiked) by 38.30 per 1000 total admissions [95% confidence 
      interval (CI) = 34.66-41.94] among males (a 114.3% increase over baseline), and 
      by 28.13 (95% CI = 25.56-30.70) among females (a 164.0% increase). Among both 
      genders, the second largest birthday-week spikes occurred during ages 20-22 
      years, followed by somewhat lower but still pronounced birthday-week spikes 
      during ages 23-26 years and 30 years (all these spikes: P < 0.05). Birthday-week 
      spikes occurred as early as age 16 years for males and 14 years for females (both 
      spikes: P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: There appears to be an increase in 
      alcohol-related adverse events from drinking around the time of one's birthday 
      among young adults in Canada.
CI  - (c) 2014 Society for the Study of Addiction.
FAU - Callaghan, Russell C
AU  - Callaghan RC
AD  - Northern Medical Program, University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), Prince 
      George, British Columbia, Canada; Human Brain Laboratory, Centre for Addiction 
      and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Dalla Lana School of Public 
      Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
FAU - Sanches, Marcos
AU  - Sanches M
FAU - Gatley, Jodi M
AU  - Gatley JM
FAU - Liu, Lon-Mu
AU  - Liu LM
FAU - Cunningham, James K
AU  - Cunningham JK
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20140722
PL  - England
TA  - Addiction
JT  - Addiction (Abingdon, England)
JID - 9304118
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Anniversaries and Special Events
MH  - Binge Drinking/*epidemiology
MH  - Child
MH  - Emergency Service, Hospital/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Female
MH  - Hospitalization/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Ontario/epidemiology
MH  - Young Adult
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Adolescents
OT  - alcohol
OT  - binge drinking
OT  - birthday celebrations
OT  - emergency department
OT  - hospitalization
OT  - morbidity
EDAT- 2014/07/23 06:00
MHDA- 2015/10/21 06:00
CRDT- 2014/07/23 06:00
PHST- 2013/07/26 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/10/28 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2014/05/16 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/07/23 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/07/23 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/10/21 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1111/add.12626 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Addiction. 2014 Oct;109(10):1667-75. doi: 10.1111/add.12626. Epub 2014 Jul 22.