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Alcohol Related Diseases in Gastroenterology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
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Alcohol Related Diseases in Gastroenterology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
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Alcohol abuse ranks among the most common and also the most severe
environmental hazards to human health. Its significance is
heightened by the possibility of prevention by elimination of the
habit, however, rarely exerted. The incidence of deleterious
effects on human health has relentlessly risen in the past years
for a variety of factors. They include migration of populations
and, particularly, increased urbanization. Thus, in some parts of
the world, population groups previously spared have become
involved, which is also re flected in the increasing number of
breweries and distilleries in the developing countries. Social,
religious, and gender-related barriers to alcohol consumption are
loosening, and the financial improvement of some segments of
populations now enable them to buy alcoholic beverages. Thus the
greatest percentage rise in the United States has recently been in
black women. Adolescents and young people drink more alcoholic
beverages than ever, and growing alcohol abuse by pregnant women
has let to an increase of the incidence of the fetal alcohol
syndrome. While the social and behavioral, including psychiatric,
consequences of alcoholism are staggering, the gastrointestinal
and, particularly, hepatic manifestations are the most widespread
somatic effects, and chronic hepatic disease in alcoholics appears
to cause the greatest cost to society. Indeed, mortality from liver
cirrhosis is considered a reliable index of alcohol consumption in
a country."
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