If such tests simply measure accumulated results of excessive drinking, the measured effect would increase with years of severe drinking. Data from records of 460 alcoholics, however, found little or no relationship. The authors suggest the possibility that the blood chemistry results may measure a ...
Evidence is reviewed indicating that the extent of alcohol abuse alone cannot account for the neuropsychological deficits observed in alcoholics, and that ... SPF Malloy - 《Neuropsychology Review》 被引量: 101发表: 1992年 Alcohol abuse and neurological outcome of the severely head injured This arti...
Blood alcohol analysis in forensic laboratories should always involve adherence to quality assurance protocols and routine quality control, preferably meeting international standards for chemical testing. As all results obtained for chemical tests have some uncertainty associated with them, analysts must take...
In specific populations such as, alcoholics (due to poor vitamin intake) or patients with chronic kidney disease, this may be more common. The severe genetic form, homocystinuria, is rare (0.02%). What are the signs and symptoms of homocystinuria? Homocystinuria has a constellation of ...
People with liver diseases will metabolize less than one drink per hour. In many chronic alcoholics, the liver becomes ineffective and can no longer metabolize alcohol, or anything else, efficiently. This is known as alcoholiccirrhosis. In alcoholic cirrhosis, the liver cells become badly scarred....
A 1980 study reported, however, that alcoholics taking antabuse could get a euphoric reaction if they consumed small amounts of alcohol, thereby conditioning them to continue their addictive behavior. More recent research has indicated that the drug is most effective for older patients who tend to...
Clomiphenecitrate, an estrogen agonist–antagonist, has also been used to evaluate pituitary–gonadal function in male alcoholics (Martinez-Riera et al., 1995). When 63 male alcoholics and 15 controls were treated with 200mgclomiphenecitrate for 8days, LH and FSH increased, and androsten...
Evaluation of Abuse Drugs and Clinical Laboratory Tests Variations in Whole Blood & Urine Samples of Abusers In this study, five hundred urine samples and five hundred blood samples of abusers were examined for the presence of alkaloid substances and abuse drugs in urines and bloods. These numbers...
Among alcoholics, zinc deficiency contributes to night blindness since zinc is a cofactor for retinol dehydrogenase, impaired alcohol metabolism due to decreased activity of gastric alcohol dehydrogenase, altered taste that may contribute to anorexia, decreased testosterone production and hypogonadism that ...
Taken together, ja:math (13%) of this alcoholic population were positive for HCV by RNA PCR and/or at least two serological tests. We conclude, that even in the absence of known risk factors and HBsAg negativity, patients with alcoholic liver disease have a significantly higher prevalence of...