Alcohol Drinking - Adverse effects
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Correlates of multiple chronic disease behavioral risk factors in Canadian children and adolescents.

19 Oct 2009 The authors assessed individual, social, and school correlates of multiple chronic disease behavioral risk factors (physical inactivity, sedentary behavior, tobacco smoking, alcohol drinking, and high body mass index) in a representative sample of ... Read more...

Effects of alcohol and sleep restriction on simulated driving performance in untreated patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

4 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Because of previous sleep disturbance and sleep hypoxia, patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) might be more vulnerable to the effects of alcohol and sleep restriction than healthy persons. OBJECTIVE: To compare the effects of ... Read more...

Pfeiffer-like syndrome with holoprosencephaly: a newborn with maternal smoking and alcohol exposure.

29 Sep 2009 We report the case of a female infant with Pfeiffer-like syndrome and holoprosencephaly. She had a cloverleaf skull, ocular proptosis, broad thumbs and halluces, and variable accompanying anomalies compatible with Pfeiffer syndrome. She also ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Alcohol Drinking - Adverse effects'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Correlates of multiple chronic disease behavioral risk factors in Canadian children and adolescents. 19 Oct 2009
• Effects of alcohol and sleep restriction on simulated driving performance in untreated patients with obstructive sleep apnea. 4 Oct 2009
• Summaries for patients. The effects of limited sleep and alcohol on driving performance in people with untreated sleep apnea. 4 Oct 2009
• Pfeiffer-like syndrome with holoprosencephaly: a newborn with maternal smoking and alcohol exposure. 29 Sep 2009
• [Head and neck squamous cell cancer] 29 Sep 2009
• Endotoxemia in alcoholic liver disease. 29 Sep 2009
• Coffee drinking and hepatocellular carcinoma: an update. 29 Sep 2009
• Alcohol and injury: a survey in primary care settings. 23 Sep 2009
• Alcohol-related harm to others: a survey of physical and sexual assault in New Zealand. 23 Sep 2009
• Long-term risk preference and suboptimal decision making following adolescent alcohol use. 19 Sep 2009
• Did alcohol protect against death from breast cancer in Russia? 17 Sep 2009
• Laryngeal cancer risk associated with smoking and alcohol consumption is modified by genetic polymorphisms in ERCC5, ERCC6 and RAD23B but not by polymorphisms in five other nucleotide excision repair genes. 13 Sep 2009
• Total exposure and exposure rate effects for alcohol and smoking and risk of head and neck cancer: a pooled analysis of case-control studies. 8 Sep 2009
• The effect of brief alcohol intervention on postpartum depression. 30 Aug 2009
• Chronic pancreatitis. 30 Aug 2009
• Gender-specific normative perceptions of alcohol-related protective behavioral strategies. 30 Aug 2009
• ALDH2, ADH1B and alcohol expectancies: integrating genetic and learning perspectives. 30 Aug 2009
• Reasons for abstaining or limiting drinking: a developmental perspective. 30 Aug 2009
• [Talking about alcohol. "A guidebook to the art of communication at a spiritual level"] 30 Aug 2009
• Mortality of bullous skin disorders from 1979 through 2002 in the United States. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Alcohol Drinking'

Definition: Behaviors associated with the ingesting of alcoholic beverages, including social drinking.

Descriptor UI: D000428

Alternative terms: Alcohol Drinking; Alcohol Consumption; Consumption, Alcohol; Drinking, Alcohol;

Related Mesh Headings: Alcoholism; Temperance;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; drug therapy; economics; epidemiology; ethnology; genetics; history; immunology; legislation & jurisprudence; metabolism; mortality; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; therapy; trends; urine;

Tree Number: F01.145.317.269;

History Note: 69

Technical Notes: drunkenness = ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION but binge drinking & acute alcohol intox = ETHANOL /pois; chronic alcohol consumption = ALCOHOLISM; TEMPERANCE is available for "abstinence from alcohol" but do not confuse with alcohol withdrawal (see note under ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL DELIRIUM & SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME)