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Related Articles Alcohol consumption and physical health-related quality of life in older women using the transformation of SF-36 to account for death. Nihon Arukoru Yakubutsu Igakkai Zasshi. 2008 Apr;43(2):97-109 Authors: Furuya H, Young AF, Powers JR, Byles JE Moderate alcohol consumption has been associated with health benefits in several studies, but few studies investigating such association for elders have been done. So, we explored the relationship between alcohol intake and changes in physical health-related quality of life (HRQoL). As analyses of longitudinal HRQoL data excluding diseased participants produced overestimated results, we compared the methods with and without incorporating death and estimated valid physical HRQoL and its decline over time. Study subjects were women from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health, ages 70-75 years at Survey 1 in 1996 (n = 12,432), and were followed-up at 3 yearly intervals for 6 years. Alcohol consumption was divided into seven categories to identify harmful alcohol levels for older women. We measured Physical Component Score (PCS) of Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form (SF-36), and applied the transformed PCS incorporating death as a valid score to estimate HRQoL changes for each alcohol group with adjustment for potential confounders. Significant declines of values were observed and the values of 'non-drinker' and 'rare drinker' were lower than the other groups during 6 ...
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