title: Flavored alcoholic beverage use, risky drinking behaviors, and adverse outcomes among underage drinkers: results from the ABRAND Study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We examined associations between consumption of different types of flavored alcoholic beverages (FABs) and risky drinking and drinking-related harms among underage drinkers.
  
  
  METHODS
  For the Alcohol Brand Research among Underage Youth study, we applied multivariable logistic regression analyses to data from underage drinkers (n = 1031, aged 13-20 years), recruited from a national Internet panel in 2011 to 2012, to estimate associations between consumption of malt-based drinks; spirits-based, premixed- or ready-to-drink cocktails; and supersized alcopops, alone or in combination, and alcohol-related outcomes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After adjustment for confounding variables, the exclusive consumption of alcopops was associated with episodic heavy drinking (odds ratio [OR] = 4.35; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.24, 15.31; P < .05) and alcohol-related injuries (OR = 6.25; 95% CI = 1.34, 29.10; P < .05). Exclusive consumption of cocktails was associated with episodic heavy drinking (odds ratio [OR] = 2.61; 95% CI = 1.26, 5.41; P < .05) and injuries requiring medical attention (OR = 6.50; 95% CI = 2.09, 20.17; P < .001. Exclusive consumption of 2 or more FABs was associated with episodic heavy drinking (OR = 2.78; 95% CI = 1.25, 6.16; P < .05), fighting (OR = 3.30; 95% CI = 1.46, 7.47; P < .001), and alcohol-related injuries (OR = 2.83; 95% CI = 1.43, 5.58; P < .001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  FABs present an emerging public health problem among youths.
authors.affiliation: Alison Burke Albers, Michael Siegel, and William DeJong are with the Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Rebecca L. Ramirez and David H. Jernigan are with the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Craig Ross is with Fiorente Media Inc, Natick, MA.
authors.forename: Alison Burke
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Albers
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Siegel
authors.forename: Rebecca L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Ramirez
authors.forename: Craig
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ross
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: DeJong
authors.forename: David H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Jernigan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects*; D000434:Alcoholic Beverages / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D005421:Flavoring Agents; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012309:Risk-Taking; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D005421:Flavoring Agents