Health risks of chronic moderate and heavy alcohol consumption: How much is too much?

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1334-1340

  Meyerhoff, Dieter J ^a   Bode, Christiane ^b   Nixon, Sara Jo ^c   De Bruin, Eveline A ^d   Bode, J Christian ^e   Seitz, Helmut K ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^f Department of Medicine   (United States)

^g Laboratory of Alcohol Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain; Cancer; Cognition; Liver; Social drinking

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; GERMANY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; CORONARY DISEASE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION; RISK;

EID: 23044455300     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ALC.0000171488.63823.09     Document Type: Conference Paper

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