An empirical approach to evaluating the validity of alternative low‐risk drinking guidelines

This paper proposes an approach for evaluating the validity of alternative low-risk drinking guidelines.Twenty-seven alternative guidelines were evaluated in terms of their ability to predict nine measures of concurrent and prospective alcohol-related harm, using longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample of US adults (n = 26 438 to 12 339 depending upon outcome). Parameters compared included sensitivity, specificity, adjusted...