Mildly disturbed hepatic and pancreatic function during early abstention from alcohol is associated with brain atrophy and with disturbed psychometric performance

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-118

  Junghanns, Klaus ^a   Backhaus, Jutta ^a   Veltrup, Clemens ^a   Dageförde, Jürgen ^a   Brückmann, Hartmut ^a   Wetterling, Tilman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLISM; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PANCREAS FUNCTION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATROPHY; BRAIN; FATTY LIVER, ALCOHOLIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PANCREAS; PSYCHOMETRICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEMPERANCE;

EID: 1642376989     PISSN: 07350414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agh028     Document Type: Article

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