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1978
Alcohol exerts a series of different effects, especially when ingested chronically, and alcoholism is a rather complex, heterogeneous disease. Genetic factors may be implicated on various levels such as metabolism, acute effects, tolerance, dependence, and medical complications. This presentation will be arranged in three parts: (1) The main results of
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Alcohol exerts a series of different effects, especially when ingested chronically, and alcoholism is a rather complex, heterogeneous disease. Genetic factors may be implicated on various levels such as metabolism, acute effects, tolerance, dependence, and medical complications. This presentation will be arranged in three parts: (1) The main results of
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Alcoholic children of alcoholics.
Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1981of the fathers and 8.0% of the mothers of female alcoholic probands. When estimated rates of alcoholism in a general population have been compared with those in the families of alcoholics (4-7), men alcoholics have been found to be 2.2 times as likely as men in the general population to have an alcoholic father and 1.6 times as likely to have an ...
T McKenna, R Pickens
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1970
Bela Schick once observed that after 20 years scientists are no longer quoted in the medical literature. "Every 20 years sees a republication of the same ideas." If the generation gap in scientific communication is unfortunate, so, too, is the geographical gap—ie, the poor flow of information from country to country.
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Bela Schick once observed that after 20 years scientists are no longer quoted in the medical literature. "Every 20 years sees a republication of the same ideas." If the generation gap in scientific communication is unfortunate, so, too, is the geographical gap—ie, the poor flow of information from country to country.
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Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Cancer
Medical Clinics of North America, 1984Certain types of cancer are clearly associated with alcohol abuse, although the role of ethanol in carcinogenesis--as a carcinogen, co-carcinogen, promoter, or "innocent bystander"--is not known with certainty. The impact of alcohol abuse on the management of the patient with cancer is also discussed.
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Alcohol Control Policies, Alcohol Consumption, and Alcoholism
The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 1981This study evaluates the implications of two alcoholism prevention models. The single distribution (log-normal) model posits that the average level of consumption in a society is sufficient to account for the rate of alcoholism; the sociocultural model suggests that variables other than consumption account for alcoholism.
Wyatt C. Jones +2 more
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Alcoholism as Blaming the Alcoholic
International Journal of the Addictions, 1976Theories of alcoholism tend to blame the alcoholic by implying that most American drinkers have an ability, which the alcoholic lacks, to drink without problems. The presence or absence of this ability or capacity presumably accounts for the incidence of alcohol problems in society.
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Alcohol dementia and alcohol delirium in aged alcoholics
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 1996Abstract In the present study, 126 alcoholics aged 60 years or older were compared with 104 alcoholics aged 35–45 years. No dementia was found in the younger group, whereas 62.7% of the aged patients had dementia; the dementia being irreversible in 32.9% of such patients.
Akihide Karasawa +5 more
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