Evaluation of Trends in Alcohol Use Disorder-Related Mortality in the US Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Yee Hui Yeo; Xinyuan He; Peng-Sheng Ting; Jian Zu; Christopher V Almario; Brennan M R Spiegel; Fanpu Ji

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.10259

Evaluation of Trends in Alcohol Use Disorder-Related Mortality in the US Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 May 2;5(5):e2210259. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.10259.

Authors

Yee Hui Yeo¹, Xinyuan He², Peng-Sheng Ting³, Jian Zu⁴, Christopher V Almario⁵, Brennan M R Spiegel⁵, Fanpu Ji²

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
³ Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
⁵ Karsh Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study uses US vital statistics data to evaluate alcohol use disorder–related mortality rates from 2012 to 2021, with a focus on trends during the COVID-19 pandemic.

MeSH terms

Alcohol Drinking / epidemiology
Alcoholism* / epidemiology
COVID-19*
Humans
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2