title: Family history as a predictor of alcoholism in U.S. navy personnel.
abstract: Alcohol consumption, drinking patterns, alcohol-related problems and family histories were compared among Navy men upon reenlistment. Nonalcoholics with family histories of alcohol problems resembled alcoholics on a number of factors including high rates of minor alcohol problems.
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008890:Military Psychiatry; D009042:Motivation; D012306:Risk; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D014481:United States