While recommendations for alcohol intake have not been specifically established for age ranges within the 65-year-and-older bracket, and practitioners do not routinely assess alcohol intake or ethanol related adverse events in this population, common sense approaches to monitoring will become increasingly...
Drinking alcohol has significant health risks for young people, small amounts may be beneficial for some older adults. New analysis suggests that recommendations for how much one can drink should be based on age and local disease rates. Credit: The Lancet Age and Region Should Drive Alcohol C...
Previous recommendations might need revisions Prenatal alcohol exposure is associated with alcohol problems in young adults, even when factors such as genetics, environment and socioeconomic status are taken into account. How a woman's diet affects what her baby eats "Efforts should be made to educa...
Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) came out with its recommendations for alcohol screening, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The article, "Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Reduce Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults: US Preventive Services ...
In 2003, these values for NLS women were 0.99 and 1.38, respectively.CONCLUSION: Most women do not markedly change their drinking behavior after age 50, but some increase their alcohol use substantially, whereas others continue to exceed current recommendations. These findings underscore the ...
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has recently published recommendations on screening and counseling to reduce unhealthy alcohol use in adults and adolescents. What Is Unhealthy Alcohol Use? Unhealthy alcohol use means drinking more than the recommended amount of alcohol. This includes ...
At the time of data collection, three residential services were operated including a site for young adults (18–25), adults (25+) and an Indigenous Australian exclusive site. Data for participants was inclusive of 2 years from final discharge at one of these residential treatment centres. ...
The study – the first to report alcohol risk by geographical region, age, sex and year – suggests that global alcohol consumption recommendations should be based on age and location, with the strictest guidelines targeted toward males between ages 15-39, who are at the greate...
Presents a study to provide updated, evidence-based recommendations concerning the effects of alcohol consumption on the prevention and control of hypertension in otherwise healthy adults (except pregnant women). Options; Outcomes; Evidence; Values; Benefits, harms and costs; Recommendations; Validation;...
a Web based intervention for high and low risk drinkers aged 14-17 who present to Emergency Departments (3). The 2012 survey of alcohol IBA in English EDs (4) noted that just 9% of departments routinely ask young people about their alcohol consumption, despite NICE (2007) recommendations ...