Alcohol abuse can be very detrimental to one’s health. It can increase the risk of several types of cancer, lead to kidney and liver failure, increase the risk of heart disease and high blood pressure, and more.
Experts throughout the world are urging doctors to lead the war against the abuse of alcohol, according to a recent article in US News. A recent statement from the United Nations Summit in NYC says there is an obvious lack of international action to try to correct the seriousness of the problem we are all [...]
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Is there a relationship between alcohol consumption and coronary artery disease? One research team set out to answer this question and their processes were reported in this recent Science Daily release.
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A new study has found that binge drinking may put teenagers at an increased risk of developing osteoporosis and bone fractures later in life. Published in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism, the study found long-term disruptions in many genes that play a role in bone formations in rats.
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Women and men who engage in frequent heavy drinking report significantly worse health-related practices, according to a Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research study in the journal Addiction Research & Theory. For the study, the researchers surveyed 7,884 members of the Kaiser Permanente Northwest integrated health plan in Oregon and Washington. They found that risky [...]
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For those who are overweight, there is more to be concerned about than high cholesterol or blood pressure. Those who indulge in alcohol along with meals loaded with calories are increasing their health risks.
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In British Columbia, alcohol consumption is up, along with alcohol-related deaths. This finding has led a group of university researchers to urge the government to raise the price of alcoholic beverages.
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The integration of alcohol screening, treatment, and referral into primary care and other medical settings is not routinely done. In addition, there are no current studies evaluating the effectiveness of integrating care for alcohol use disorders (AUDs) into routine treatment for tuberculosis (TB), despite the high co-occurrence and mortality associated with these two diseases.
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Researchers warn that even low alcohol consumption is bad for your health in general. Johan Jarl of Lund University, Sweden, worked with a team to determine the effect of low alcohol consumption on health by measuring alcohol-related medical care costs and episodes collected during the Swedish Cost of Alcohol Project in 2002.
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