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The complex relationships between alcohol use and human health
represent an area of increasing interest to specialists interested
in preventive cardiology. The inverse relationship between alcohol
consumption and the incidence of cardiovascular diseases,
especially myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke, has in fact
gained sound scientific support in the last few years of the 20th
century. This book, based in an international symposium on the
topic held in Venice, October 30-31, 1999, analyzes in depth the
epidemiological association between alcohol consumption and human
diseases and discusses the possible mechanisms involved in
alcohol-associated protection from atherosclerotic diseases. The
oxidative effects of different amounts of alcohol intake and of
various alcoholic beverages in the production of these effects -
subjects of considerable debate - are also analyzed. This book
should be of interest to clinicians and researchers active in the
areas of atherosclerosis, public health, preventive medicine, and
preventive cardiology. It is intended to specifically help
practising clinicians provide their patients with evidence-based
answers to the most commonly asked questions regarding alcohol use.
Reflecting the recent surge of activity in food web research fueled
by new empirical data, this authoritative volume successfully spans
and integrates the areas of theory, basic empirical research,
applications, and resource problems. Written by recognized leaders
from various branches of ecological research, this work provides an
in-depth treatment of the most recent advances in the field and
examines the complexity and variability of food webs through
reviews, new research, and syntheses of the major issues in food
web research. Food Webs features material on the role of nutrients,
detritus and microbes in food webs, indirect effects in food webs,
the interaction of productivity and consumption, linking cause and
effect in food webs, temporal and spatial scales of food web
dynamics, applications of food webs to pest management, fisheries,
and ecosystem stress. Three comprehensive chapters synthesize
important information on the role of indirect effects, productivity
and consumer regulation, and temporal, spatial and life history
influences on food webs. In addition, numerous tables, figures, and
mathematical equations found nowhere else in related literature are
presented in this outstanding work. Food Webs offers researchers
and graduate students in various branches of ecology an extensive
examination of the subject. Ecologists interested in food webs or
community ecology will also find this book an invaluable tool for
understanding the current state of knowledge of food web research.
This volume, based on the International Congress Creatine: From
Basic Science to Clinical Application, held in Milan on June 4,
1999, outlines the physiological role of creatine in the human body
as well as its possible role in different pathological conditions.
Creatine is already used as a dietary supplement to augment muscle
performance in healthy individuals and inpatients with immobilizing
diseases, such as complex fractures. There is also an increasing
interest in its administration in a growing number of clinical
conditions. A specific deficit of endogenous synthesis of creatine
which responds to high dosage exogenous supplementation has been
described. In cardiac failure and in chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease, creatine improves the contractility of the muscular
system. Promising effects of this substance have also been
described in animal models of neurodegenerative disorders, such as
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and in some mitochondrial
cytopathies. This volume is of obvious interest to basic scientists
working on the physiology of creatine and to clinicians interested
in its medical indications.
The effects of alcohol consumption on human health have fuelled a
vigorous scientific debate in recent years. This volume, based on
the scientific sessions of the International Meeting on MODERATE
ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, held in Venice
October 30-31, 1999, is intended to offer an up-to-date view of the
most recent information on this complex topic. While comprehension
ofthe damages associated with alcohol abuse has improved, an
increasing number of epidemiological studies performed in different
countries of the world, have shown that individuals consuming
moderate amounts of alcohol (l 0-30 g/day, approximately equivalent
to not more than two drinks per day in men and one drink per day in
women) are less affected by acute coronary events than total
abstainers. The apparent protection is evident (the rate of
coronary events in most studies is reduced by about 30%) and has
been observed and documented among various population groups (men,
women, several racial groups, middle-aged and older individuals).
Protection is seen in patients with no known history of coronary
heart disease, as well as in those with coronary heart disease,
diabetes, etc. Recent data suggest that the protection induced by a
moderate alcohol use extends to the risk of ischemic strokes and of
ischemic damage to the lower limbs. Since adverse alcohol effects
are less frequent at these low daily intakes, total mortality is
also favourably affected in moderate alcohol consumers as compared
to abstainers.
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Applied Algebra, Algorithmics and Error-Correcting Codes - 2nd International Conference, AAECC-2, Toulouse, France, October 1-5, 1984, Proceedings (English, French, Paperback, 1986 ed.)
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