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Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2023 Background: Excessive alcohol use leads to a spectrum of liver disease. While physicians treat liver disease, the cause, i.e. alcohol, often remains untreated.
CS Bharath +4 more
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PER3 Polymorphism and Insomnia Severity in Alcohol Dependence [PDF]
Sleep, 2012 Insomnia is common, persistent, and associated with relapse in alcohol-dependent (AD) patients. Although the underlying mechanisms are mostly unstudied, AD patients have impaired circadian rhythms and sleep drive, which may be genetically influenced. A polymorphism in the PER3 gene (PER3(4/4), PER3(4/5), PER3(5/5)) has previously been associated with ...
Brower, Kirk +4 more
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SEVERE ALCOHOL-INDUCED LIVER DISEASE AND THE ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE SYNDROME [PDF]
Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2006 To examine the hypothesis that patients who present in the UK to detoxification services differ from patients who present with severe alcohol-induced liver disease (ALD) with respect to severity of dependence on alcohol and other features of their drinking history.Levels of alcohol dependence were assessed in 34 patients with severe ALD, all of whom ...
Smith, S. +5 more
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Association of CHRM2 polymorphisms with severity of alcohol dependence [PDF]
Genes, Brain and Behavior, 2010 The cholinergic muscarinic 2 receptor (CHRM2) gene has been considered a candidate gene for the alcohol dependence in that it might underpin certain risk factors for this condition. This study examined variations in the CHRM2 between the patients with alcohol dependence and population controls in Korean and explored the associations between CHRM2 ...
M H, Jung +8 more
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Severity of alcohol dependence in patients with alcoholic liver disease. [PDF]
BMJ, 1983 To determine the severity of dependence on alcohol in patients with alcoholic liver disease the severity of alcohol dependence questionnaire was administered to 193 patients with various types of alcoholic liver disease established histologically, in whom a detailed history of lifetime alcohol consumption was also obtained.
A D, Wodak +4 more
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Some factors affecting on the severity of Acute Psychoses in Alcohol Withdrawal
European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction Alcohol withdrawal delirium is severe complication of alcohol withdrawal leading to high mortality. Early identification of severe course of psychosis and complications threatening the patient’s life is the most important problem in the ...
V. Kuzminov
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Alcoholism and Drug Addiction, 2015 Introduction: Alcohol dependence is an important risk factor for suicidal behaviours. Current data show that between 14 and 43% of alcohol-dependent patients attempt suicide.
Aneta Michalska +6 more
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Kerala Journal of Psychiatry, 2022 Background: In Kerala, according to National Family Health Survey 4, 37.5% of males and 1.6% of females use alcohol. Even though the physical and mental health morbidity of alcohol dependence is well-known, studies are less.
T Joseph Jithin +3 more
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Alcoholism and Drug Addiction, 2016 Introduction: Delirium tremens (DT) is a life-threatening complication that occurs in 5–33% of patients treated for alcohol withdrawal syndrome. The aim of the present study was to analyse the risk factors for delirium tremens among patients treated for ...
Aneta Michalska +8 more
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Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2018 Background: Worldwide, alcohol is the most frequently used and socially accepted hepatotoxin. However, not everyone who has alcohol dependence develops alcoholic cirrhosis, and does quantity/type or pattern of alcohol intake determine the development of ...
Anil Kakunje +5 more
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