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| William KerrSummaryAffiliation: Alcohol Research Group Country: USA Publications
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Understanding standard drinks and drinking guidelinesWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, 6475 Christie Avenue, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Drug Alcohol Rev 31:200-5. 2012..This paper reviews published research on the ability of consumers to utilise information about the alcohol content of beverages when expressed in different forms, for example in standard drinks or units versus percentage alcohol content...- Categorizing US state drinking practices and consumption trendsWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Int J Environ Res Public Health 7:269-83. 2010..Analyses of relationships between beer and spirits series for states within groups as compared to those in different groups failed to clearly indicate group cohesiveness... - Per capita alcohol consumption and ischemic heart disease mortality in a panel of US states from 1950 to 2002William C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Addiction 106:313-22. 2011.... 
Distribution of alcohol consumption and expenditures and the impact of improved measurement on coverage of alcohol sales in the 2000 National Alcohol SurveyWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Emeryville, Calilfornia 94608, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 31:1714-22. 2007..Using the new measures, we examined their distributions by estimating the proportion of mean intake, heavy drinking days, and alcohol expenditures among drinkers grouped by volume...- Population-level relationships between alcohol consumption measures and Ischemic Heart Disease mortality in U.S. time-seriesWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, California 94608, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 31:1913-9. 2007..Population-level relationships could be in either direction and previous studies have found mixed results... - Relationship of life-course drinking patterns to diabetes, heart problems, and hypertension among those 40 and older in the 2005 U.S. National Alcohol SurveyWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, 6475 Christie Avenue, Suite 400, Emeryville, California 94608, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 71:515-25. 2010..The goal of this study was to estimate relationships between life-course drinking patterns and the risks of self-reported diabetes, heart problems, and hypertension... - Alcohol content variation of bar and restaurant drinks in Northern CaliforniaWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, California 94608, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 32:1623-9. 2008..To estimate the average of and sources of variation in the alcohol content of drinks served on premise in 10 Northern Californian counties... - Age-period-cohort modelling of alcohol volume and heavy drinking days in the US National Alcohol Surveys: divergence in younger and older adult trendsWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Addiction 104:27-37. 2009..The decomposition of trends in alcohol volume and heavy drinking days into age, period, cohort and demographic effects offers an important perspective on the dynamics of change in alcohol use patterns in the United States... - Differences in the measured alcohol content of drinks between black, white and Hispanic men and women in a US national sampleWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, 6475 Christie Avenue, Suite 400, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Addiction 104:1503-11. 2009..To measure and describe drink alcohol content differences between Hispanic, non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black men and women in the United States... - Large drinks are no mistake: glass size, not shape, affects alcoholic beverage drink poursWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Drug Alcohol Rev 28:360-5. 2009..Alcohol content in drinks has been shown to be variable. This study evaluates claims regarding the effects of glass size and glass shape on the amount of alcohol served in on-premise drinks... - How many drinks does it take you to feel drunk? Trends and predictors for subjective drunkennessWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Addiction 101:1428-37. 2006..To describe and model the sources of the variation and trends in the meaning of subjective drunkenness... - Estimates of the mean alcohol concentration of the spirits, wine, and beer sold in the United States and per capita consumption: 1950 to 2002William C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, California 94608, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:1583-91. 2006..Estimates of per capita consumption of alcohol in the United States require estimates of the mean alcohol content by volume (%ABV) of the beer, wine, and spirits sold to convert beverage volume to gallons of pure alcohol... - Age-period-cohort influences on trends in past year marijuana use in the US from the 1984, 1990, 1995 and 2000 National Alcohol SurveysWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, 2000 Hearst Ave, Suite 300, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 86:132-8. 2007..However, no studies have utilized data on current consumption in multiple cross-sectional surveys to estimate these factors... - Age, period and cohort influences on beer, wine and spirits consumption trends in the US National Alcohol SurveysWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Addiction 99:1111-20. 2004..To estimate the separate influences of age, period and cohort on the consumption of beer wine and spirits in the United States... - Racial and ethnic differences in all-cause mortality risk according to alcohol consumption patterns in the national alcohol surveysWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Emeryville, California, USA
Am J Epidemiol 174:769-78. 2011.... - The average ethanol content of beer in the U.S. and individual states: estimates for use in aggregate consumption statisticsWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California 94709 2130, USA
J Stud Alcohol 64:70-4. 2003..s... - National and state estimates of the mean ethanol content of beer sold in the US and their impact on per capita consumption estimates: 1988 to 2001William C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Berkeley, California, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 28:1524-32. 2004..To address the lack of empirically based estimates of beer ethanol content, we have calculated national estimates for the years 1988 to 2001 and state-specific estimates for 1993 to 2001... - A drink is a drink? Variation in the amount of alcohol contained in beer, wine and spirits drinks in a US methodological sampleWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 29:2015-21. 2005..Empirically based estimates of the mean alcohol content of beer, wine and spirits drinks from a national sample of US drinkers are not currently available... - The alcohol content of wine consumed in the US and per capita consumption: new estimates reveal different trendsWilliam C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California 94709, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:516-22. 2006..To estimate the mean percentage alcohol content by volume (%ABV) for wine sold in the US and in each state for the years 1962 to 2002, and to apply these to per capita wine sales for the years 1970 to 2002... - Per capita alcohol consumption and suicide mortality in a panel of US states from 1950 to 2002William C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Drug Alcohol Rev 30:473-80. 2011.... - Externalities from alcohol consumption in the 2005 US National Alcohol Survey: implications for policyThomas K Greenfield
Alcohol Research Group, 6475 Christie Avenue, Suite 400, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Int J Environ Res Public Health 6:3205-24. 2009..Being unmarried, older, white and ever having monthly heavy drinking or alcohol problems was associated with more alcohol externalities. Publicizing external costs of drinking could elevate political will for effective alcohol controls... - Twenty-one-year trends and correlates of pressure to change drinkingDouglas L Polcin
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Emeryville, California, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 36:705-15. 2012..The prevalence and correlates of these informal pressures have been minimally studied... - Energy intake estimates of respondent-measured alcoholic beveragesJennifer Tujague
Center for Weight and Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Alcohol Alcohol 44:34-41. 2009..The aim of this study was to demonstrate a methodology for estimating detailed energy intake from alcoholic beverages... - Not all drinks are created equal: implications for alcohol assessment in IndiaMadhabika B Nayak
Alcohol Research Group, 6475 Christie Avenue, Suite 400, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Alcohol Alcohol 43:713-8. 2008..There is sparse literature on drink alcohol content in developing countries. This study documented detailed information on drink sizes and ethanol content of alcoholic beverages consumed in three different parts of India... - Alcohol measurement methodology in epidemiology: recent advances and opportunitiesThomas K Greenfield
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, 6475 Christie Avenue, Suite 400, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Addiction 103:1082-99. 2008..To review and discuss measurement issues in survey assessment of alcohol consumption for epidemiological studies... - Alcohol-related injury and driving while intoxicated: a risk function analysis of two alcohol-related events in the 2000 and 2005 National Alcohol SurveysCheryl J Cherpitel
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Emeryville, California 94608, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 36:168-74. 2010..National population data on risk of alcohol-related injury or driving while intoxicated (DWI) are scarce... - Accuracy of photographs to capture respondent-defined drink sizeLee Ann Kaskutas
Alcohol Research Group, 6475 Christie Avenue, Suite 400, Emeryville, California 94608 1010, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 69:605-10. 2008..This article studied the validity of photographs of glasses to assess drink size... - Alcohol and liver cirrhosis mortality in the United States: comparison of methods for the analyses of time-series panel data modelsYu Ye
Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, California 94608, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 35:108-15. 2011..To explore various model specifications in estimating relationships between liver cirrhosis mortality rates and per capita alcohol consumption in aggregate-level cross-section time-series data... 
Missed and inconsistent classification of current drinkers: results from the 2005 US National Alcohol SurveyLorraine T Midanik
Public Health Institute, Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, CA, USA
Addiction 108:348-55. 2013..This study compares current 12-month drinkers who do not report drinking in the last 30 days with current drinkers who drank in the last 30 days and assesses possible misclassification errors from use of a 30-day consumption measure...- Moderate alcohol use and reduced mortality risk: systematic error in prospective studies and new hypothesesKaye Middleton Fillmore
University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Ann Epidemiol 17:S16-23. 2007..We explore the history of this hypothesis, examine challenges to our meta-analysis, and discuss options for future research... - Tracking alcohol consumption over timeThomas K Greenfield
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California, USA
Alcohol Res Health 27:30-8. 2003..If these requirements are met, the regular collection of data on aspects of alcohol consumption will greatly increase researchers' understanding of the forces influencing a population's alcohol consumption and its consequences... - Are you going to finish that drink?William C Kerr
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Emeryville, California 94608, USA
Subst Use Misuse 45:475-81. 2010..This research was supported by grant P-30-A05595 to the Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)... - Pancreatitis mortality and population level alcohol consumption: taking the science a step forwardWilliam C Kerr
Addiction 99:1231-2. 2004 - Stability of alcohol consumption over time: evidence from three longitudinal surveys from the United StatesWilliam C Kerr
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA
J Stud Alcohol 63:325-33. 2002..There appear to be important subgroups moving between abstention and light drinking and moderate and heavy drinking that can be identified only by multiple measurements or retrospective measures... - Debate: alcohol and coronary heart diseaseKaye Middleton Fillmore
Am J Med 121:e25. 2008 - The average ethanol content of beer in the U.S. and individual state: estimates for use in aggregate consumption statisticsWilliam C Kerr
J Stud Alcohol 64:439-40. 2003 - Changes in drinking status, serious illness and mortalityKaye Middleton Fillmore
Department of Social and Behavioral Science, University of California, San Francisco, Box 0612, San Francisco, California 94143 0612, USA
J Stud Alcohol 64:278-85. 2003..We studied the relationship of drinking and abstaining with all-cause mortality in a two-measurement-point prospective study to assess the importance of drinking change versus stability among the healthy and seriously ill...
Research Grants
- Methodologies for Improving Measurement of Alcohol Consumption and ProblemsWilliam Kerr; Fiscal Year: 2006..Results will be disseminated to researchers, practitioners and the public...
- Alcohol Consumption & Mortality in the US 1950-2000William Kerr; Fiscal Year: 2009..abstract_text> ..