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Li M, Qu Y, Zhong J, Che Z, Wang H, Xiao J, Wang F, Xiao J. Sex bias in alcohol research: A 20-year comparative study. Front Neuroendocrinol 2021; 63:100939. [PMID: 34411573 DOI: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2021.100939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2021] [Revised: 07/20/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
Abstract
We aimed to assess the sex-inclusive and sex-based analysis bias in alcohol research for the past 20 years. Data were abstracted from 2988 original research articles published from 2000 through 2019 in 51 representative journals across 9 biomedical disciplines. An analysis in 5-year intervals revealed that the percentage of studies using participants of both sexes was significantly higher between 2015 and 2019 than between 2000 and 2014. When stratified, clinical studies showed a higher percentage of both-sex studies compared to basic studies using animals. The reasons for the use of single-sex cohorts mainly included insufficient participant numbers and misconceptions surrounding the hormonal variability of females. Implementation of the NIH SABV policy promoted the ratio of NIH-funded papers with sex-based analyses. In conclusion, sex bias in alcohol-related biomedical studies has improved over the past 20 years, particularly after the implementation of the SABV policy. Although clinical studies increasingly included sex-based analysis, basic studies were biased towards the use of males.
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- Mianhuan Li
- National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, The Second Hospital Affiliated to Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China; Clinical Medical Research Institute and Department of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau Institute of CNS Regeneration, Key Laboratory of CNS Regeneration (Ministry of Education), Jinan University, Guangzhou, China; Co-innovation Center of Neuroregeneration, Nantong University, Jiangsu, China
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- Clinical Medical Research Institute and Department of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Clinical Medical Research Institute and Department of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Oncology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Institute for Liver Diseases of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Cardiac Regeneration and Ageing Lab, School of Life Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Seventh Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China.
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- Clinical Medical Research Institute and Department of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
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Wilkinson C, Pennay A, MacLean S, Livingston M, Room R, Hamilton M, Laslett AM, Jiang H, Callinan S, Waleewong O. Addiction research centres and the nurturing of creativity: The Centre for Alcohol Policy Research (CAPR), Melbourne: a decade on. Addiction 2018; 113:568-574. [PMID: 29178662 DOI: 10.1111/add.14075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2017] [Revised: 07/03/2017] [Accepted: 10/16/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Established in 2006, the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research (CAPR) is Australia's only research centre with a primary focus on alcohol policy. CAPR has four main areas of research: alcohol policy impacts; alcohol policy formation and regulatory processes involved in implementing alcohol policies; patterns and trends in drinking and alcohol problems in the population; and the influence of drinking norms, cultural practices and social contexts, particularly in interaction with alcohol policies. In this paper, we give examples of key publications in each area. During the past decade, the number of staff employed at CAPR has increased steadily and now hovers at approximately 10. CAPR has supported the development of independent researchers who collaborate on a number of international projects, such as the Alcohol's Harm to Others study which is now replicated in approximately 30 countries. CAPR receives core funding from the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, and staff have been highly successful in securing additional competitive research funding. In 2016, CAPR moved to a new institutional setting at La Trobe University and celebrated 10 years of operation.
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- Claire Wilkinson
- Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.,Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.,Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.,Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.,Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.,National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
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- Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.,Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.,International Health Policy Program, Nonthaburi, Thailand
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Cleveland HH, Griffin AM, Wolf PSA, Wiebe RP, Schlomer GL, Feinberg ME, Greenberg MT, Spoth RL, Redmond C, Vandenbergh DJ. Transactions Between Substance Use Intervention, the Oxytocin Receptor (OXTR) Gene, and Peer Substance Use Predicting Youth Alcohol Use. Prev Sci 2018; 19:15-26. [PMID: 28150062 PMCID: PMC5696096 DOI: 10.1007/s11121-017-0749-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Abstract
This study investigated the oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene's moderation of associations between exposure to a substance misuse intervention, average peer substance use, and adolescents' own alcohol use during the 9th-grade. OXTR genetic risk was measured using five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and peer substance use was based on youths' nominated closest friends' own reports of alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use, based on data from the PROSPER project. Regression models revealed several findings. First, low OXTR risk was linked to affiliating with friends who reported less substance use in the intervention condition but not the control condition. Second, affiliating with high substance-using friends predicted youth alcohol risk regardless of OXTR risk or intervention condition. Third, although high OXTR risk youth in the intervention condition who associated with low substance-using friends reported somewhat higher alcohol use than comparable youth in the control group, the absolute level of alcohol use among these youth was still among the lowest in the sample.
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- H. Harrington Cleveland
- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State
- Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, Penn State
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State
- Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, Penn State
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State
- Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, Penn State
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- Educational Psychology and Methodology, University at Albany, State University of New York
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State
- Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, Penn State
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- Partnershps in Prevention Science Institute, Iowa University
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- Department of Biobehavioral Health, Penn State
- Neuroscience Program, Penn State
- Molecular Cellular and Integrative Biosciences Program, Penn State
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Walter KN, Wagner JA, Cengiz E, Tamborlane WV, Petry NM. The need for research addressing alcohol use disorder and diabetes. Addiction 2016; 111:763-5. [PMID: 26589363 DOI: 10.1111/add.13187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2015] [Accepted: 09/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Kimberly N Walter
- University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA
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- University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA
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- Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
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