Dose-response relationships between drinking and serum tests in Japanese men aged 40-59 years

Alcohol

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 133-138

  Nagaya, Teruo ^a   Yoshida, Hideyo ^b   Takahashi, Hidekatsu ^c   Matsuda, Yoshihiro ^c   Kawai, Makoto ^c  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Gifu Prefectural Center for Health Check and Health Promotion   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dose response relationship; Drinking; Enzyme activity; Glucose; Lipids; Serum; Uric acid

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; URIC ACID;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EXERCISE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERURICEMIA; JAPAN; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRIGLYCERIDES; URIC ACID;

EID: 0033050058     PISSN: 07418329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0741-8329(98)00044-5     Document Type: Article

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