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Alcohol and Aging : Clinical and Public Health Perspectives

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Alexis Kuerbis, Alison.A. Moore, Paul Sacco, Faika Zanjani, editors. --Cham: Springer , c2016.
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This book provides a current perspective on alcohol and aging to better understand the trends, costs, benefits, and clinical and community evidenced-based strategies. This book embraces not only the physical, cognitive, psychological, and social health benefits of moderate drinking in the elderly, it also delves into the risks of excessive drinking, including physical and psychiatric morbidity, neurodegeneration, medication complications, and accidents and injuries, and loss of independence. Wr…
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Kuerbis, Alexis
Moore, Alison.A
Sacco, Paul
Zanjani, Faika
Responsibility
Alexis Kuerbis, Alison.A. Moore, Paul Sacco, Faika Zanjani, editors
Place of Publication
Cham
Publisher
Springer
Date of Publication
c2016
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 283 p.) : 5 illus., 2 illus. in color
ISBN
9783319472331
9783319472317 (print ed.)
Subjects (MeSH)
Aging - drug effects
Alcohol-Related Disorders - complications
Alcohol-Related Disorders - diagnosis
Abstract
This book provides a current perspective on alcohol and aging to better understand the trends, costs, benefits, and clinical and community evidenced-based strategies. This book embraces not only the physical, cognitive, psychological, and social health benefits of moderate drinking in the elderly, it also delves into the risks of excessive drinking, including physical and psychiatric morbidity, neurodegeneration, medication complications, and accidents and injuries, and loss of independence. Written by experts in the field, this book is the only current text that includes the most current scientific, research, empirical, and practice information alongside a comprehensive review of the status of the field that will help guide alcohol use management and stimulate future research. Alcohol and Aging is the ultimate resource for all researchers, educators, clinicians, and professionals working with older adults who drink.
Contents
Part I. Introduction -- 1. Thinking Behind Alcohol Consumption in Old Age: Psychological and Sociological Reasons for Drinking in Old Age -- Part II. Epidemiological Perspectives of Alcohol and Aging -- 2. Understanding Alcohol Consumption Patterns among Older Adults: Continuity and Change -- 3. Alcohol Use and Comorbid Psychiatric and Subsyndromal Disorders among Older Adults -- Part III. Alcohol Effects on Healthy Aging -- 4. Alcohol Consumption and Cardiovascular Disease in Aging Populations -- 5. Cancer, Alcohol, and Aging -- 6. Alcohol and Cognition -- 7. Alcohol, Injury, and Aging -- 8. Medications, Alcohol, and Aging -- 9. The Intersection of Elder Abuse and Alcohol Misuse -- 10. Social and Familial Contexts for Drinking among Older Adults -- Part IV. Clinical Issues of Alcohol and Aging -- 11. Screening and Assessment of Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Older Adults -- 12. Treatment of Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Older Adults -- 13. Self-Medication with Alcohol: Aging Issues -- 14. Adapting SBIRT for Older Adults -- 15. Long-Term Care and Alcohol Use -- 16. Drinking, Aging, and Global Public Policy -- Part V. Future Directions -- 17. Future Directions for Aging and Alcohol.
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Alcohol, nutrition, and health consequences

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Ronald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy, Sherma Zibadi, editors. --New York, NY: Humana Press , c2013.
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Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences provides practical, data-driven resources to help the reader understand the basics, treatments and preventive strategies that are involved in the understanding of how alcohol may affect healthy individuals as well as those with chronic alcohol use with or without relevant infectious diseases, obesity, diabetes and/or neurocognitive declines. It will also help the clinician define the causes and types of nutritional changes due to alcohol use and also …
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Watson, Ronald Ross
Preedy, Victor R
Zibadi, Sherma
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Ronald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy, Sherma Zibadi, editors
Place of Publication
New York, NY
Publisher
Humana Press
Date of Publication
c2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxi, 578 p. : 70 ill., 8 ill. in color)
Series
Nutrition and Health
Series Title
Nutrition and health (Totowa, N.J.)
ISBN
9781627030472
Subjects (MeSH)
Alcohol-Related Disorders - complications
Ethanol - adverse effects
Ethanol - metabolism
Nutrition Disorders - etiology
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Subjects (LCSH)
Nutrition
Personal health and hygiene
Emergency medicine
Abstract
Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences provides practical, data-driven resources to help the reader understand the basics, treatments and preventive strategies that are involved in the understanding of how alcohol may affect healthy individuals as well as those with chronic alcohol use with or without relevant infectious diseases, obesity, diabetes and/or neurocognitive declines. It will also help the clinician define the causes and types of nutritional changes due to alcohol use and also explain how nutrition can be used to ameliorate its consequences. Chapters present the application of current nutritional knowledge by physicians and dietitians. Specific areas involving alcohol-related damage due to nutritional changes are reviewed, including heart disease, obesity, digestive tract cancers, lactation, brain function, and liver disease. In addition, alcohol's effects on absorption of minerals and nutrients, a key role in causing damage are treated. The importance of diet in modifying alcohol and its metabolite damage is also explained. Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences is essential reading for alcohol therapists and researchers as well as primary care physicians and dietitians and is an easy reference to help the clinician, student, and dietitian comprehend the complex changes caused by direct and indirect effects of ethanol at the cellular level via its nutritional modification.
Contents
Alcoholic and Nutrition: an Overview -- Genetics of alcohol metabolism -- Laboratory models available to study alcohol and nutrition -- Ethanol-induced lipid peroxidation and apoptosis in embryopathy -- Alcohol Use During Lactation: Effects on the Mother Infant Dyad -- Moderate alcohol administration: oxidative stress and nutritional status -- Alcohol use and abuse: Effects on Body Weight and body composition -- Alcohol Nutrition and health inequalities -- The effect of diet on protein modification by ethanol metabolites -- Vitamin B12 deficiency in alcoholics -- Alcohol American Indians/Alaskan Natives and Alcohol: Biology, Nutrition and Positive Programs -- Metabolism of Ethanol to Acetaldehyde in the Rat Mammary Tissue. Inhibitory Effects of Plant Polyphenols and Folic Acid -- Dietary zinc supplementation and prenatal ethanol exposure -- Tocotrienol and cognitive dysfunction induced by alcohol -- Soy Products Affecting Alcohol Absorption and Metabolism -- Oats supplementation and alcohol-induced oxidative tissue damage -- Fish oil n-3 fatty acids to prevent hippocampus and cognitive dysfunction in experimental alcoholism -- Alcohol in HIV and possible interactions with antiretroviral medications -- Popular energy drinks and alcohol -- The psychological synergistic effects of alcohol and caffeine -- Alcohol and Smoking: A correlation of use in youth? -- Are there Physiological Correlations between alcohol and tobacco use in adults? -- Alcohol, HIV/AIDS and Liver Disease -- Nutritional status, socioeconomic factors, alcohol and cataracts -- Alcohol Intake and High Blood Pressure -- Alcohol and dyslipidemia -- Dietary antioxidants in chronic alcoholic pancreatitis -- Alcohol consumption, lifestyle factors and risk of type 2 diabetes -- Alcohol, overweight, and obesity -- Nutrition alcohol and anorectic and bulimic adolescents -- Viral infections and cancer during alcohol use -- Ethanol and hepatocarcinogenesis -- Alcohol, diet and their interaction in colorectal and urinary tract tumors -- Alcohol, acetaldehyde and digestive tract cancer -- Alcohol Intake and Esophageal Cancer: Epidemiologic Evidence -- A Nutritional approach to prevent alcoholic liver disease -- Nutraceutical potential of indigenous plant foods and herbs for treatment of alcohol related Liver damage -- Alcohol and nutrition as risk factors for chronic liver disease -- Alcohol-related liver disease: Roles of insulin resistance, lipotoxic ceramide accumulation and endoplasmic reticulum stress -- Nutrition and alcoholic and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: The significance of cholesterol -- Dietary fatty acids and alcoholic liver disease -- Nutrition in alcoholic steatohepatitis -- Alcoholic and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and vitamin A.
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Alcohol use disorders and the lung : a clinical and pathophysiological approach

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edited by David M. Guidot, Ashish J. Mehta. --New York, NY: Humana Press , c2014.
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Alcohol Use Disorders and the Lung: A Clinical and Pathophysiological Approach is an excellent resource for clinicians who care for individuals affected by alcohol use disorders in diverse settings. Although alcohol abuse alone does not cause acute lung injury, it renders the lung susceptible to dysfunction in response to the inflammatory stresses of sepsis, trauma, and other clinical conditions recognized to cause acute lung injury. In parallel, these same pathophysiological effects of alcoho…
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Guidot, David M
Mehta, Ashish J
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edited by David M. Guidot, Ashish J. Mehta
Place of Publication
New York, NY
Publisher
Humana Press
Date of Publication
c2014
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 252 p.)
Series Vol.
14
Series Title
Respiratory medicine (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN
9781461488330 (electronic bk.)
Subjects (MeSH)
Alcohol Drinking - adverse effects
Alcohol-Related Disorders - complications
Lung Diseases
Subjects (LCSH)
Alcohol - Physiological effect
Alcoholism - Complications
Lungs - Diseases
Abstract
Alcohol Use Disorders and the Lung: A Clinical and Pathophysiological Approach is an excellent resource for clinicians who care for individuals affected by alcohol use disorders in diverse settings. Although alcohol abuse alone does not cause acute lung injury, it renders the lung susceptible to dysfunction in response to the inflammatory stresses of sepsis, trauma, and other clinical conditions recognized to cause acute lung injury. In parallel, these same pathophysiological effects of alcohol abuse significantly increase the risk of a wide range of serious lung infections. Many clinicians involved in the primary treatment of alcohol use disorders, such as addiction psychiatrists, will find this text of interest as it will expand their understanding of the health consequences of alcohol use disorders. In parallel, clinicians who specialize in pulmonary and/or critical care medicine will have a unique resource that provides a comprehensive review of the pathophysiology of alcohol-related lung disorders and insights into evolving therapeutic options in these vulnerable individuals. Alcohol Use Disorders and the Lung: A Clinical and Pathophysiological Approach fills a gap in the literature and presents the evolving clinical research that may soon lead to novel therapies that can improve lung health in individuals with alcohol use disorders and co-existing conditions such as HIV infection.
Contents
A Brief History of Alcohol Use and Abuse in Human History -- Overview of the Evolving Recognition of the Health Effects of Excessive Alcohol Use Over the Past Two Centuries Including the Classic Citations -- Current Definitions of Alcohol Use Disorders and the Use of Validated Questionnaires in Clinical Practice and Research -- The Epidemiology of Alcohol Abuse and Pneumonia -- The Epidemiology of Alcohol and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome -- Alcohol, the Upper Airway, and Mucociliary Dysfunction in the Conducting Airways -- Alcohol and the Alveolar Macrophage -- Alcohol and the Alveolar Epithelium -- Alcohol-Mediated Oxidative Stress in the Airway: The Unique Role of Thiol Depletion -- Alcohol and the Adaptive Immune Response in the Airway: Dendritic Cell and Lymphocyte Impairments -- Alcohol Impairment of Granulocyte Function During Lung Infection -- Disruption in the Dynamic Balance Between Transforming Growth Factor- and Granulocyte/Macrophage Colony-stimulating Factor Signaling within the Alveolar Space of the Alcoholic Lung: Impact on Epithelial and Macrophage Function -- Alcohol-mediated Zinc Deficiency within the Alveolar Space: A Potential Fundamental Mechanism Underlying Oxidative Stress and Cellular Dysfunction in the Alcoholic Lung -- The Impact of Alcohol Abuse on Multiple Organ Dysfunction in the Surgical Patient -- Alcohol and HIV: Experimental and Clinical Evidence of Combined Impact on the Lung -- Maternal Alcohol Use and the Neonate.
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