Alcohol Drinking
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Saturday, November 21, 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...

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...

Hazardous cosleeping environments and risk factors amenable to change: case-control study of SIDS in south west England.

11 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVES: To investigate the factors associated with sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) from birth to age 2 years, whether recent advice has been followed, whether any new risk factors have emerged, and the specific circumstances in which SIDS ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Alcohol Drinking'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Relationship between alcohol consumption and total mortality in hypertensive women. 30 Oct 2009
• Alcohol consumption and morning rise in blood pressure in men from a population-based study. 30 Oct 2009
• Substance use among Iranian cardiac surgery patients and its effects on short-term outcome. 30 Oct 2009
• The poppies of Afghanistan. 30 Oct 2009
• Living on the edge. Abstracts of the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs Conference 2009. November 1-4, 2009. Darwin, Australia. 30 Oct 2009
• Correlates of multiple chronic disease behavioral risk factors in Canadian children and adolescents. 19 Oct 2009
• Alcohol use in South Asians in the UK. 18 Oct 2009
• Supermarket chains warn that minimum pricing of alcohol will not stop binge drinking. 14 Oct 2009
• Hazardous cosleeping environments and risk factors amenable to change: case-control study of SIDS in south west England. 11 Oct 2009
• Knowledge of drinking guidelines does not equal sensible drinking. 8 Oct 2009
• [Alcohol and early death in Russia] 6 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
• Civilian aviation fatalities involving pilot ethanol and a previous record of substance abuse. 29 Sep 2009
• Alcohol expectancies among high school students in Inner Mongolia, China. 29 Sep 2009
• Lifecourse socio-economic mobility and oral health in middle age. 29 Sep 2009
• Human papillomavirus reduces the prognostic value of nodal involvement in tonsillar squamous cell carcinomas. 29 Sep 2009
• Endotoxemia in alcoholic liver disease. 29 Sep 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)