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Girls with Family History of Breast Disease Should Avoid Alcohol
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[21/11/2011] Adding to research linking alcohol to breast cancer risk, a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that adolescent girls with a family history of breast disease — either cancer or the benign lesions that can become cancer – have a higher risk of developing benign breast disease as young women than other girls. Girls with Family History of Breast Disease Should Avoid Alcohol - Read more
People Born After World War II Are More Likely to Binge Drink
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[20/09/2011] Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health looked generational and gender differences in alcohol consumption, alcohol disorders, and mortality. Findings indicate that people born after World War II are more likely to binge drink and develop alcohol use disorders. People Born After World War II Are More Likely to Binge Drink - Read more
Heredity Behind Subjective Effects of Alcohol
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[24/05/2011] Scientists have long known that people who have a close relative with alcohol problems themselves run an increased risk of starting to abuse alcohol. The reason for this has not been known, but a study from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, provides part of the answer. The study shows that people who have a close relative who is an alcoholic react more positively to alcohol than other people. Heredity Behind Subjective Effects of Alcohol - Read more
Prevention of Alcohol-induced Liver Disease?
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[03/05/2011] An antioxidant may prevent damage to the liver caused by excessive alcohol, according to new research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The findings may point the way to treatments to reverse steatosis, or fatty deposits in the liver that can lead to cirrhosis and cancer. Prevention of Alcohol-induced Liver Disease? - Read more
Why some children are harmed by mother's alcohol, but others aren't
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[01/04/2011] Exposure to alcohol in the womb doesn't affect all fetuses equally. Why does one woman who drinks alcohol during pregnancy give birth to a child with physical, behavioural or learning problems - known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorder - while another woman who also drinks has a child without these problems? Why some children are harmed by mother's alcohol, but others aren't - Read more
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