The paper assesses blood alcohol concentration and risk behaviors for traffic accidents before and after the implementation of a law which prohibits the use of alcoholic beverages on city gas stations. In Porto Alegre, Southern Brazil, young people go out at night and drive to gas station convenience stores to buy alcoholic beverages which are consumed on the premises of parking lots in gas sta...

PURPOSE University students in a study on estimated blood alcohol concentration (eBAC) feedback apps were offered participation in a second study, if reporting continued excessive consumption at 6-week follow-up. This study evaluated the effects on excessive alcohol consumption of offering access to an additional skills training app. METHOD A total of 186 students with excessive alcohol consu...

Background: Tincture of opium (TOP) is currently used for maintenance therapy in treatment of opioids addiction. It contains ethanol. The present study was conducted to assess the increase in blood alcohol concentration (BAC) in its users; a process which may interfere with breath-alcohol test performed by law enforcement or traffic police. Methods: A total of 143 individuals were selected rand...

Subjects whose daily alcohol intake varied from less than 22 g to over 88 g were studied. They differed in their mean systolic and diastolic blood pressures compared with those of controls who were teetotallers. The association between alcohol consumption and blood pressure was independent of age. Ex-alcohol users who were much older than current alcohol users had lower systolic and diastolic b...

1. Yeast alcohol dehydrogenase was used to determine ethanol in the portal and hepatic veins and in the contents of the alimentary canal of rats given a diet free from ethanol. Measurable amounts of a substance behaving like ethanol were found. Its rate of interaction with yeast alcohol dehydrogenase and its volatility indicate that the substance measured was in fact ethanol. 2. The mean alcoho...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The efficacy and safety of traditional alcohol sclerotherapy procedures are controversial in the management of large simple hepatic cysts. In this study, we aimed to develop and evaluate a novel alcohol sclerotherapy procedure, termed repeated aspiration and alcohol instillation sclerotherapy, for the treatment of simple hepatic cysts. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective, doub...

OBJECTIVES The goal of the study was to find out if and what is a difference between clinical signs of alcohol intoxication (AI) and a detected blood alcohol concentration (BAC) among the patients with syndrome of alcohol dependence. BACKGROUND The relation between BAC and clinical assessment of AI is a complicated issue. People with dependence form a special group due to their altered tolera...

According to a recent survey, most Americans think that drivers should not drink alcohol and then drive. Nonetheless, our legal system generally relates certain offenses to the amount of alcohol detected in a driver's body. The amount of alcohol is usually referred to as BAC -blood alcohol concentration -although it is often measured in the breath where the alcohol level in the water vapor of t...

Blood lead concentration was measured in 398 male and 133 female London civil servants not subject to industrial exposure to heavy metals. The relation between blood lead and serum creatinine concentrations and blood pressure were examined. Blood lead concentration ranged from 0.20 to 1.70 mumol/l with a geometric mean concentrations of 0.58 mumol/l in men and 0.46 mumol/l in women (p less than...