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The annual incidence of alcoholism among males in the Lundby Community Cohort (n=2,550), prospectively observed during the period 1957–1972, was found to be highest for workers (340 per 100,000), which was much higher than for self-employed businessmen, artisans, and farmers (230 per 100,000) or for ‘white collar’ employees (190 per 100,000). The findings support earlier suggestions that class creates alcoholics at different rates through their general class situations.
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Supported by grant No. 80/405 from the Delegation of Social Research in Sweden, and by grant No. 71/2 from the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.
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Öjesjö, L., Hagnell, O. & Lanke, J. Class variations in the incidence of alcoholism in the Lundby Study, Sweden. Soc Psychiatry 18, 123–128 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00583562
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