Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Alcohol Consumption and Mortality in the U.S.

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Alcohol Consumption and Mortality in the U.S., in American Journal of Preventive Medicine

key takeaway: "White persons (60.9% of the population) accounted for 70.8% of all alcohol-attributable deaths and had the second-highest death rate (63.8 per 100,000) among racial/ethnic groups. American Indian/Alaska Native persons had the highest alcohol-attributable death rate (145.3) and the lowest average age of death (48.1 years). White and Asian, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander persons tended to die of alcohol-attributable conditions from chronic diseases at relatively older ages, whereas people in other racial/ethnic groups tended to die at younger ages from alcohol-attributable acute causes of death. After adjusting for differences in per capita alcohol consumption, there remained fourfold differences in alcohol-attributable deaths by race/ethnicity."