Relationships Among Alcohol Consumption, Facial Flushing Response, and Metabolic Syndrome in Healthy Men

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 480-486

  Jung, Jin Gyu ^a   Kim, Jong Sung ^a   Yoon, Seok Joon ^a   Oh, Mi Kyeong ^b  

^a Chungnam National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Drinking; Flushing Response; Metabolic Syndrome

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXERCISE; FACIAL FLUSHING; FEMALE; FLUSHING; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KOREA; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FLUSHING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK;

EID: 84861949463     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: 18732585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2012.04.014     Document Type: Article

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