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. 2023 Jan 18:13:1084762.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1084762. eCollection 2022.

The association between current smoking and binge drinking among adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies

Leila Molaeipour  1 , Maryam Ghalandari  2 , Hajar Nazari Kangavari  1 , Zeinab Alizadeh  1 , Elahe Jafari  3 , Fatemeh Gholami  1 , Neda Ghahremanzadeh  1 , Shiva Safari  1 , Vahideh Mohseni  1 , Masoumeh Shahsavan  1 , Seyed Abbas Motevalian  1   4
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The association between current smoking and binge drinking among adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies

Leila Molaeipour et al. Front Psychiatry. .

Abstract

Background: The substantial increasing trend of binge drinking is a global alarm. Our aim was to undertake a systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies to explore the association of current smoking with binge drinking among adults.

Methods: We systematically searched Web of Knowledge; PubMed; Scopus; Embase and Ovid (MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, PsycEXTRA, and PsycTests) (from inception to 27 May 2020) databases to identify cross-sectional studies of the association between current smoking and binge drinking. Study screening, data extraction, and methodological quality assessment were all carried out by two independent authors. Adjusted odds ratio (AOR) was pooled with 95% confidence intervals (CI) using random effects model in the meta-analysis, followed by the investigation of the heterogeneity via Q-test and I 2 statistic. We assessed publication bias using a funnel plot, the Egger's, and Begg's tests.

Results: We identified 3,171 studies and included nine cross-sectional studies with 64,516 participants. A significant association was found between current smoking and binge drinking among both genders (AOR = 2.97; 95% CI = 1.98 to 4.45; I 2 = 90.5%). Subgroup analysis showed that this association among women, men, Caucasians, and Asians/Africans were (AOR = 3.68; 95% CI = 1.03 to 13.18; I 2 = 98.9%), (AOR = 2.53; 95% CI = 1.87 to 3.42; I 2 = 73.1%), (AOR = 1.36; 95% CI: 1.01-1.83, I 2 = 47.4%), and (AOR = 3.93; 95% CI: 2.99-5.17, I 2 = 61.3%), respectively. There was no evidence of publication bias.

Conclusion: Current smoking is associated with binge drinking and can be used for identifying and screening binge drinkers. Moreover, this association is stronger among men, and Asians/Africans. This meta-analysis estimation was limited to English-language studies, and the full text of about 3.5% of reports for retrieval was not found, then generalization of the results should be done with caution.

Keywords: alcohol drinking; binge drinking; meta-analysis; smoking; systematic review.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Study selection.
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Forest plot of the association between binge drinking and current smoking. Weights are from random-effects model.
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Forest plot of the association between binge-drinking and current smoking by gender. Weights and between-subgroup heterogeneity test are from random-effects model.
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Forest plot of the association between binge drinking and current smoking by nationality. Weights and between-subgroup heterogeneity test are from random-effects model.
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Metaninf plot of the association between current smoking and binge drinking in both sexes.
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Begg’s funnel plot of included studies assessing the publication bias in studies addressing the association between binge-drinking and current smoking.
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