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Alcohol and burden of disease in Australia: the challenge in assessing consumption
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2015 Objective: Alcohol consumption is one of the major avoidable risk factors for disease, illness and injury in the Australian community. Population health scientists and economists use estimates of alcohol consumption in burden of disease frameworks to ...
Rowan P. Ogeil +3 more
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Journal of Health (JOH), 2017 Background: Alcohol consumption in the world at 2015 in the amount of 6.3 litter pure alcohol, the consumer average of age around above 15 years old. Drinking alcohol underage has impact on physical and mental disorders.
Teguh Santoso +2 more
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The epidemiology of alcohol consumption in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2019 Background Globally, excessive alcohol consumption is a major public health problem and is associated with social, mental, physical and legal consequences.
Getinet Ayano +3 more
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Alcohol consumption and mortality from all causes, coronary heart disease, and stroke: results from a prospective cohort study of Scottish men with 21 years of follow up [PDF]
, 1999 Objectives: To relate alcohol consumption to mortality. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: 27 workplaces in the west of Scotland. Participants: 5766 men aged 35-64 when screened in 1970-3 who answered questions on their usual weekly alcohol
Davey Smith, G. +3 more
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Do drinking problems in the past affect current consumption?
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2019 : Harmful use of alcohol ranks among the top five risk factors for disease, disability and death worldwide. However, not all individuals who consume alcohol throughout life are addicted and our premise is that addiction implies a chain of consumption ...
Ana Maria Reis +2 more
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ALDH2*2 and peer drinking in East Asian college students [PDF]
, 2017 Background: The ALDH2*2 allele (A-allele) at rs671 is more commonly carried by Asians and is associated with alcohol-related flushing, a strong adverse reaction to alcohol that is protective against drinking.
Chartier, Karen G. +5 more
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Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 2017 Introduction: Moderate to heavy alcohol consumption is a risk factor for all-cause mortality and cancer incidence. Although cross-sectional data are available through national surveys, data on alcohol consumption in Alberta from a large prospective ...
Darren R. Brenner +5 more
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Modeling the evolution of drinking behavior: A Statistical Physics perspective [PDF]
Physica A 570, 125814 (2021), 2020 In this work we study a simple compartmental model for drinking behavior evolution. The population is divided in 3 compartments regarding their alcohol consumption, namely Susceptible individuals $S$ (nonconsumers), Moderate drinkers $M$ and Risk drinkers $R$. The transitions among those states are ruled by probabilities.
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The Saccharomyces cerevisiae amino acid transporter Lyp1 has a broad substrate spectrum
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Yeast Amino acid Transporter family members mediate the import of amino acids, ranging from substrate specialists to generalists. Here, we show that the specialist transporter, Lyp1, has a broader substrate spectrum than previously described, with affinity constants spanning from micromolar to millimolar.
Foteini Karapanagioti +3 more
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Patterns of alcohol consumption and related behaviour in Great Britain: a latent class analysis of the alcohol use disorder identification test (AUDIT) [PDF]
, 2008 Aims: Attempts have been made to develop typologies to classify different types of alcoholism. However, limited research has focused on classifications to describe general patterns of alcohol use in general population samples.
Shevlin, M, Smith, GW
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