Endothelial Dysfunction and High Cardiovascular Risk Profile in Severe Alcoholics Improve Only Partially Following a Medium-Term Alcohol Withdrawal

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 242-250

  Di Gennaro, Cristiana ^a   Saccani Jotti, Gloria ^a   Pinelli, Silvana ^a   Venturi, Nicola ^a   Palombi, Francesca ^a   Manfredi, Guido ^a   Pellegrino, Antonina ^a   Bicchieri, Lorenza ^a   Sansoni, Paolo ^a   Montanari, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alcohol Withdrawal; Alcoholism; Cardiovascular Risk; Endothelial Dysfunction; Oxidative Stress

Indexed keywords

8 ISOPROSTANE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ENDOTHELIN 1; N(G),N(G) DIMETHYLARGININE; URIC ACID;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; FLOW MEDIATED VASODILATATION; HEAVY ALCOHOLIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARGININE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPIDS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; VASODILATION;

EID: 84856395924     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2011.01636.x     Document Type: Article

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