... alcohol consumption is a chronic liver disease and approximately 100 000 deaths are related to alcohol abuse each year in the United States of America [ 1 ]. In 1960s, Lieber et al. [ 2 ] showed that alcohol is a hepatotoxin and that ALD is not caused by malnutrition by showing that alcohol produces...

... limited to relatively small or heterogeneous study groups, or have used suboptimal methods of measuring insulin action. Hence the aim of the present study was to examine whether the metabolic syndrome (as recently defined), components of this syndrome and smoking are associated with alcohol consumption...

...P. D. Arkwright; L. J. Beilin; I. Rouse; B. K. Armstrong; R. Vandongen 1. The association between alcohol consumption and blood pressure was studied in 491 Government employees. The men, aged 21–45 years, volunteered to complete a health questionnaire and submitted to standardized measurements...