The other targets of alcohol use disorder: The systemic effects of alcohol abuse

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https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.12.18426

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alcohol use disorder, immunity, neurological damage, cardiovascular system, epigenetics

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Drinking alcohol is an established and normalised practice in our society, even though it can physically harm us. High-risk alcohol drinking patterns can increase the chance of negative consequences for the drinkers or their environment. The liver is by far the organ most affected by alcohol abuse; however, alcohol use disorder is a systemic disease which affects a wide range of organs and psychological processes. Other systems that can be affected by continued alcohol consumption include the immune, neurological, and cardiovascular systems. In addition, alcohol can lead to epigenetic alterations that may be transmitted from one generation to the next.

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Arantza Sanvisens, Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) in Badalona (Spain).

Graduate in statistics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and graduate in documentation from the Open University of Catalonia. She is a researcher in the Addictive Disorders Network at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) in Badalona (Spain), a programme included in the Thematic Networks for Cooperative Research in Health funded by the Carlos III Health Institute in Madrid.

Robert Muga, Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) in Badalona (Spain).

PhD in Medicine and Surgery from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, with a Master’s degree in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University (USA). He works as an internist and researcher at the Internal Medicine Department of the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital in Badalona (Spain) and as a professor of Medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

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2022-02-02

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Sanvisens, A., & Muga, R. (2022). The other targets of alcohol use disorder: The systemic effects of alcohol abuse. Metode Science Studies Journal, (12), 71–77. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.12.18426
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