Beer Drinking Nations - The Determinants of Global Beer Consumption

Czechs, Beer, and the Consequences of Drinking

Adverse reproductive effects of beer drinking.

This short communication represents a systematic review of the literature about beer drinking during gestation. A Medline search was undertaken of articles based on the criterion that beer and pregnancy were in the abstract and central to the article. Manuscripts were to be published in English in peer review medical journals from 1981 to 2006. Beer is a commonly consumed alcoholic beverage amo...

Acute biochemical responses to moderate beer drinking.

The consequences of drinking six pints of beer (3.31) over three hours were investigated in six healthy men. The expected rise in plasma osmolality, fall in plasma vasopressin concentration, and increase in free water clearance occurred; these variables had returned to normal by nine hours. There was a small but significant fall in plasma concentrations of urea and creatinine accompanied by a r...

Mexican beer dermatitis: a unique variant of lime phytophotodermatitis attributable to contemporary beer-drinking practices.

environmental triggers. It is inherited as an autosomal trait and may be triggered by stimuli including sunlight and artificial UV light, viral infections, immunosuppressive conditions (hematologic malignancies, organ transplant, or autoimmune disease), and immunosuppressant therapies. The role of immunosuppressant therapy is supported by the observation in at least 1 case report of remission o...

Beer drinking accounts for most of the hazardous alcohol consumption reported in the United States.

OBJECTIVE Patterns and correlates of hazardous drinking, defined as occasions in which five or more drinks were consumed in a day, were compared for wine, beer and distilled spirits. METHOD From a probability sample of the U.S. adult household population, 2,817 respondents who had consumed at least one drink in the previous year were selected for analysis. RESULTS The results show that, in ...