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Alcohol Consumption, Alcohol Outlets, And The Risk Of Being Assaulted With A Gun, Dennis P. Culhane, Charles C. Branas, Therese S. Richmond, Michael R. Elliott, Douglas J. Wiebe
Alcohol Consumption, Alcohol Outlets, And The Risk Of Being Assaulted With A Gun, Dennis P. Culhane, Charles C. Branas, Therese S. Richmond, Michael R. Elliott, Douglas J. Wiebe
Dennis P. Culhane
Background: We conducted a population-based case-control study to better delineate the relationship between individual alcohol consumption, alcohol outlets in the surrounding environment, and being assaulted with a gun.
Methods: An incidence density sampled case–control study was conducted in the entire city of Philadelphia from 2003 to 2006. We enrolled 677 cases that had been shot in an assault and 684 population-based controls. The relationships between 2 independent variables of interest, alcohol consumption and alcohol outlet availability, and the outcome of being assaulted with a gun were analyzed. Conditional logistic regression was used to adjust for numerous confounding variables.
Results: After …