Alcohol Drinking - Ethnology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Substance use among Iranian cardiac surgery patients and its effects on short-term outcome.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: We assessed the prevalence of substance use among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft and valve surgery in northwest Iran. We evaluated the postoperative complications and in-hospital mortality of patients with substance ... Read more...

Ethnicity, age, and trends in alcohol-related driver fatalities in the United States.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the 8-year ethnic-specific declining trend in the proportion of alcohol-impaired driver deaths in the United States. METHODS: We used the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), which is a census of all fatal motor vehicle ... Read more...

Alcohol consumption, hypertension, and total mortality among women.

Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a reduced risk of total mortality among Caucasian women. Whether moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a reduced risk of total mortality among African-American or hypertensive ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Alcohol Drinking - Ethnology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Substance use among Iranian cardiac surgery patients and its effects on short-term outcome. 30 Oct 2009
• The poppies of Afghanistan. 30 Oct 2009
• Alcohol use in South Asians in the UK. 18 Oct 2009
• Ethnicity, age, and trends in alcohol-related driver fatalities in the United States. 29 Sep 2009
• Alcohol consumption, hypertension, and total mortality among women. Sep 2009
• ALDH2, ADH1B and alcohol expectancies: integrating genetic and learning perspectives. 30 Aug 2009
• Self-reported diabetes in Hispanic subgroup, non-Hispanic black, and non-Hispanic white populations: National Health Interview Survey, 1997-2005. 30 Aug 2009
• A prospective study of cigarette smoking initiation during college: Chinese and Korean American students. 29 Jun 2009
• Differences in the drinking behaviors of Chinese, Filipino, Korean, and Vietnamese college students. 29 Jun 2009
• Lifetime alcohol use, abuse and dependence among university students in Lebanon: exploring the role of religiosity in different religious faiths. 30 May 2009
• Does adherence to the Mediterranean diet modify the impact of smoking on health? 15 May 2009
• Oral cancer risk factors among Mexican American Hispanic adolescents in South Texas. 29 Apr 2009
• Ethnicity and adolescent pathways to alcohol use. 29 Apr 2009
• Relationship between body mass index, alcohol use, and alcohol misuse in a young adult female twin sample. 29 Apr 2009
• Alcohol, marijuana, and perceptions of influence on social and sexual behavior among African American adolescent female detainees. 25 Apr 2009
• Sexual risk behaviors among HIV-positive black men who have sex with women, with men, or with men and women: implications for intervention development. 14 Apr 2009
• Driver- and passenger-based estimates of alcohol-impaired driving in the U.S., 2001-2003. 9 Apr 2009
• Sociodemographic differences in binge drinking among adults--14 States, 2004. Apr 2009
• Smoking, chewing, and cultural identity: prevalence and correlates of tobacco use among the Yup'ik-The Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) study. 30 Mar 2009
• Lower urinary tract symptoms in relation to lifestyle and medical conditions in Japanese workers. 30 Mar 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)