Alcoholic Intoxication - Epidemiology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Driving after binge drinking.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Although binge drinking is strongly associated with alcohol-impaired driving, little is known about the prevalence of or risk factors for driving after binge drinking. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of, ... Read more...

Online posting of unprofessional content by medical students.

21 Sep 2009 CONTEXT: Web 2.0 applications, such as social networking sites, are creating new challenges for medical professionalism. The scope of this problem in undergraduate medical education is not well-defined. OBJECTIVE: To assess the experience of US ... Read more...

Does drinking lead to sex? Daily alcohol-sex behaviors and expectancies among college students.

30 Aug 2009 A within-person multilevel approach was used to model the links between alcohol use and sexual behavior among first-year college students, using up to 14 days of data for each person with occasions (Level 1, N = 2879 days) nested within people ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Alcoholic Intoxication - Epidemiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Driving after binge drinking. 29 Sep 2009
• Online posting of unprofessional content by medical students. 21 Sep 2009
• Does drinking lead to sex? Daily alcohol-sex behaviors and expectancies among college students. 30 Aug 2009
• Drinking to cope as a statistical mediator in the relationship between suicidal ideation and alcohol outcomes among underage college drinkers. 30 Aug 2009
• Alcohol abuse and dependence symptoms: a multidimensional model of common and specific etiology. 30 Aug 2009
• Selection and socialization of risky drinking during the college transition: The importance of microenvironments associated with specific living units. 30 Aug 2009
• Interpersonal violence and facial fractures. 30 Aug 2009
• Factors associated with intimate partner violence among pregnant rural women in Rwanda. 29 Aug 2009
• College binge drinking still on the rise. 24 Aug 2009
• Alcohol use among high school students - Georgia, 2007. 19 Aug 2009
• Effectiveness of mandatory alcohol testing programs in reducing alcohol involvement in fatal motor carrier crashes. 17 Aug 2009
• What can public health surveillance of emergency department presentations for acute alcohol problems tell us about social trends in drinking behaviour? 15 Aug 2009
• A day at the races: does alcohol strength make a difference? 30 Jul 2009
• The long-term health consequences of relationship violence in adulthood: an examination of low-income women from Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio. 14 Jul 2009
• Binge drinking among youths and young adults in the United States: 1979-2006. 29 Jun 2009
• Youth binge drinking: progress made and remaining challenges. 29 Jun 2009
• [Alcohol consumption among adolescents in Germany. Results of EsKiMo] 29 Jun 2009
• Binge drinking in women at risk for developing eating disorders. 29 Jun 2009
• Alcohol intoxication requiring hospital admission in children and adolescents: retrospective analysis at the University Children's Hospital in the Slovak Republic. 29 Jun 2009
• Screening for high-risk drinking in a college student health center: characterizing students based on quantity, frequency, and harms. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Alcoholic Intoxication'

Definition: An acute brain syndrome which results from the excessive ingestion of ETHANOL or ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.

Descriptor UI: D000435

Alternative terms: Alcoholic Intoxication; Intoxication, Alcoholic; Drunkenness; Drunkennesses;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C21.739.100.175; F03.900.100.300;

Technical Notes: human & animal