Medical and nutritional complications of alcoholism
Subtitle: mechanisms and management
By: [edited by] Charles S. Lieber
Contributors: Lieber, Charles S., 1931-
Publisher: Plenum Medical Book Co.
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 579
Subjects: Alcohol -- Physiological effect; Alcoholism -- Pathophysiology; Alcohol, Ethyl -- adverse effects; Alcoholism -- complications; Nutrition -- drug effects; Nutrition Disorders -- etiology; Nutrition Disorders -- therapy
Description: Abstract: Focuses on the consequences of the metabolism of ethanol in the body and how, as a result, alcoholics differ from nonalcoholics biochemically and pathologically. Includes chapters on alcohol andlipid disorders; the interaction of ethanol with other drugs; alcohol and the liver, hematologic system, digestive tract, pancreas, and kidney; and discusses the cardiovascular effects of alcohol and the effects of alcohol abuse on skeletal muscle. Also discusses the nutritional aspects of alcoholism and biological markers of alcoholism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.