Alcohol Research Group

  • Yachen Zhu, PhD

  • Biostatistician

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    yzhu@arg.org

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  • Expertise

    Applications of survival analysis, causal mediation analysis, moderation analysis, multilevel modeling, Monte Carlo simulations, and Bayesian data analysis to alcohol epidemiology; risk relationships between alcohol use and chronic health conditions; health disparity research.
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Selected Publications
  • Zhu, Y., Llamosas-Falcón, L., Kerr, W., Puka, K., & Probst, C. (2024). Differential associations of alcohol use with ischemic heart disease mortality by socioeconomic status in the US, 1997-2018. JAMA Network Open, 7 (2) e2354270 Abstract or Full Text
  • Cook, W. K., Kerr, W. C., Zhu, Y., Bright, S., Buckley, C., Kilian, C., Lasserre, A. M., Llamosas-Falcón, L., Mulia, N., Rehm, J., & Probst, C. (2024). Alcoholic beverage types consumed by population subgroups in the United States: Implications for alcohol policy to address health disparities. Drug and Alcohol Review, 43 (4) 946-955 Abstract or Full Text
  • Mulia, N., Zhu, Y., Phillips, A. Z., Ye, Y., Bensley, K. M. K., & Karriker-Jaffe, K. J. (2024). Inequities in alcohol screening of primary care patients with chronic conditions. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 67 (6) 932-940 Abstract or Full Text
  • Zhu, Y., Trangenstein, P. J., & Kerr, W. C.  (2024). Does cannabis substitute or complement alcohol after recreational cannabis legalization in the Washington State? A three-level mixed-effects modeling. Addictive Behaviors, 162 108218 Abstract or Full Text
  • Zhu, Y., Llamosas-Falcón, L., Kerr, W. C., Rehm, J., & Probst, C. (2024). Behavioral risk factors and socioeconomic inequalities in ischemic heart disease mortality in the United States: A causal mediation analysis using record linkage data. PLOS Medicine, 21 (9) e1004455 Abstract or Full Text
  • Carr, T., Kilian, C., Llamosas-Falcón, L., Zhu, Y., Lasserre, A. M., Puka, K., & Probst, C. (2024). The risk relationships between alcohol consumption, alcohol use disorder and alcohol use disorder mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Addiction, 119 (7) 1174-1187 Abstract or Full Text
  • Zhu, Y., Ye, Y., Greenfield, T. K., & Kerr, W. C.  (2024). Associations between simultaneous use of alcohol and cannabis and cannabis-related problems in 2014-2016: Evidence from the Washington panel survey. Journal of Cannabis Research, 6 (1) 8 Abstract or Full Text
  • Puka, K., Kilian, C., Zhu, Y. Mulia, N., Buckley, C., Lasserre, A.M., Rehm, J., Probst, C. (2023). Can lifestyle factors explain racial and ethnic inequalities in all-cause mortality among US adults?. BMC Public Health, 23 1591 Abstract or Full Text
  • Zhu, Y., Greenfield, T. K., Ye, Y., Williams, E., & Kerr, W. C.  (2023). Life-course accumulated cannabis use and recent cannabis-related problems in the Washington panel survey. Addictive Behaviors, 152 107957 Abstract or Full Text

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