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17055671
TITLE
Cohort trends in prevalence and spousal concordance for smoking.
ABSTRACT
Evaluation of the pattern of smoking prevalence over time could provide insight for disease prevention and tobacco control policy. Examination of assortative mating is important in assessing the relative contribution of genetic and environmental influences in behavior genetics. A significant spousal concordance for smoking could imply assortative mating behavior and have potential influence on the risk for offspring smoking. Using intergenerational data from large scale adult twin panels in Australia, the present study examined the patterns of prevalence and spousal concordance of lifetime smoking across a wide range of birth cohorts. Data were collected for more than 16,000 twins, their spouses, parents, and parents-reported grandparents. The measurement models were used to calculate prevalence and spousal concordance for smoking. Prevalence of lifetime smoking for females increased significantly over successive cohorts, and was higher for twins (0.28-0.49) than for their parents or grandparents (0.06-0.42). Smoking prevalence was still higher in males than in females for the twins (0.49-0.69), and parental or grandparental (0.62-0.77) generations, but the gender differences largely decreased in younger cohorts. Moderate but significant spousal correlations were found across cohorts and generations, which were higher for twins (0.39-0.55) than for their parents and grandparents (0.19-0.49). Despite using a simplified smoking assessment, findings in this study demonstrated changes of lifetime smoking patterns across birth cohorts and the presence of assortative mating for smoking behavior.
DATE PUBLISHED
2007 May 11
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
received 2006/01/25
revised 2006/09/04
accepted 2006/09/27
aheadofprint 2006/10/20
pubmed 2006/10/24 09:00
medline 2007/06/15 09:00
entrez 2006/10/24 09:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Kuo PH Kuo Po-Hsiu PH Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23219, USA. pkuo@vcu.edu
Wood P Wood Philip P
Morley KI Morley Katherine I KI
Madden P Madden Pamela P
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG
Heath AC Heath Andrew C AC
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 88
ISSUE: 2-3
TITLE: Drug and alcohol dependence
ISOABBREVIATION: Drug Alcohol Depend
YEAR: 2007
MONTH: May
DAY: 11
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 0376-8716
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Drug Alcohol Depend
COUNTRY: Ireland
ISSNLINKING: 0376-8716
NLMUNIQUEID: 7513587
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Twin Study
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
REFTYPE REFSOURCE REFPMID NOTE
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GRANTID AGENCY COUNTRY
AA007535 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
AA013320 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
AA013326 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
AA014041 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
AA07728 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
AA10249 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
AA11998 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
CA75581 NCI NIH HHS United States
DA00272 NIDA NIH HHS United States
DA12540 NIDA NIH HHS United States
DA12854 NIDA NIH HHS United States
K21 DA000272 NIDA NIH HHS United States
K21 DA000272-05 NIDA NIH HHS United States
P01 CA075581 NCI NIH HHS United States
P01 CA075581-010003 NCI NIH HHS United States
P50 AA011998 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
P50 AA011998-01 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
R01 AA007535 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
R01 AA007535-05 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
R01 AA007728 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
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R01 AA013326-01 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
R01 AA014041-02 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
R01 DA012540 NIDA NIH HHS United States
R01 DA012540-01 NIDA NIH HHS United States
R01 DA012854 NIDA NIH HHS United States
R01 DA012854-01 NIDA NIH HHS United States
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Australia
Cohort Studies
Female
Humans
Male
Nuclear Family
Parents
Prevalence
Registries
Smoking genetics
Smoking Cessation psychology
Spouses psychology
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
OTHER ID's
OTHERID SOURCE
NIHMS21671 NLM
PMC3070597 NLM
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