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Gugushvili A, Azarova A, Irdam D, King L. Hazardous alcohol consumption in slow- and fast-privatized Russian industrial towns. Sci Rep 2024; 14:11737. [PMID: 38778062 PMCID: PMC11111452 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-62077-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 05/13/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024] Open
Abstract
Hazardous drinking, defined as the consumption of homemade, unofficially made alcohol and non-beverages, is prevalent and accounts for a high proportion of alcohol-related deaths in Russia. Individual-level characteristics are important explanations of hazardous drinking, but they are unlikely to explain spatial variation in this type of alcohol consumption. Areas that attracted insufficient attention in the research of hazardous drinking are the legacy of industrialization and the speed of economic reforms, mainly through the privatization policy of major enterprises in the 1990s. Applying mixed-effects logistic regressions to a unique dataset from 30 industrial towns in the European part of Russia, we find that in addition to individual-level characteristics such as gender, age, marital status, education, social isolation, labor market status, and material deprivation, the types of towns where informants' relatives resided such as industrial structure and speed of privatization also accounted for the variance in hazardous alcohol consumption among both male and female populations of the analyzed towns.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alexi Gugushvili
- Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Postboks 1096, Blindern, 0317, Oslo, Norway.
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Hall & Partners, Bankside 2, 90-100 Southwark Street, London, SE1 0SW, UK
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- Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Crotty Hall, 412 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002, USA
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Kholmatova K, Krettek A, Leon DA, Malyutina S, Cook S, Hopstock LA, Løvsletten O, Kudryavtsev AV. Obesity Prevalence and Associated Socio-Demographic Characteristics and Health Behaviors in Russia and Norway. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:ijerph19159428. [PMID: 35954782 PMCID: PMC9367755 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19159428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2022] [Revised: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 07/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
Abstract
Associations between obesity and socio-demographic and behavioral characteristics vary between populations. Exploring such differences should throw light on factors related to obesity. We examined associations between general obesity (GO, defined by body mass index) and abdominal obesity (AO, defined by waist-to-hip ratio) and sex, age, socio-economic characteristics (education, financial situation, marital status), smoking and alcohol consumption in women and men aged 40–69 years from the Know Your Heart study (KYH, Russia, N = 4121, 2015–2018) and the seventh Tromsø Study (Tromsø7, Norway, N = 17,646, 2015–2016). Age-standardized prevalence of GO and AO was higher in KYH compared to Tromsø7 women (36.7 vs. 22.0% and 44.2 vs. 18.4%, respectively) and similar among men (26.0 vs. 25.7% and 74.8 vs. 72.2%, respectively). The positive association of age with GO and AO was stronger in KYH vs. Tromsø7 women and for AO it was stronger in men in Tromsø7 vs. KYH. Associations between GO and socio-economic characteristics were similar in KYH and Tromsø7, except for a stronger association with living with spouse/partner in KYH men. Smoking had a positive association with AO in men in Tromsø7 and in women in both studies. Frequent drinking was negatively associated with GO and AO in Tromsø7 participants and positively associated with GO in KYH men. We found similar obesity prevalence in Russian and Norwegian men but higher obesity prevalence in Russian compared to Norwegian women. Other results suggest that the stronger association of obesity with age in Russian women is the major driver of the higher obesity prevalence among them compared to women in Norway.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kamila Kholmatova
- Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway; (A.K.); (D.A.L.); (L.A.H.); (O.L.); (A.V.K.)
- International Research Competence Centre, Northern State Medical University, Troitsky Av., 51, 163069 Arkhangelsk, Russia
- Correspondence:
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- Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway; (A.K.); (D.A.L.); (L.A.H.); (O.L.); (A.V.K.)
- Department of Public Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Skövde, 541 28 Skövde, Sweden
- Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway; (A.K.); (D.A.L.); (L.A.H.); (O.L.); (A.V.K.)
- Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK;
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- Research Institute of Internal and Preventive Medicine, Branch of Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician M.A. Lavrentiev Av., 17, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia;
- Department of Therapy, Hematology and Transfusiology, Novosibirsk State Medical University, Krasny Av., 52, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK;
- Faculty of Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London SW3 6LY, UK
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- Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway; (A.K.); (D.A.L.); (L.A.H.); (O.L.); (A.V.K.)
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- Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway; (A.K.); (D.A.L.); (L.A.H.); (O.L.); (A.V.K.)
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- Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway; (A.K.); (D.A.L.); (L.A.H.); (O.L.); (A.V.K.)
- International Research Competence Centre, Northern State Medical University, Troitsky Av., 51, 163069 Arkhangelsk, Russia
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