Nervous system damage and nutritional factors in chronic alcoholics
| Autor: | K. Andersen, Hendrik Vilstrup, P. Ahlgren, Ulla Tarp Danielsen, Henrik Toft Sørensen, Bjørn Melgaard, H.K. Hanel, Kirsten Mølgaard Nielsen |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Nervous system medicine.medical_specialty Central nervous system Physiology Neuropsychological Tests medicine Humans Nutritional Physiological Phenomena chemistry.chemical_classification business.industry Neuropsychology Chronic alcoholic Feeding Behavior General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery Alcoholism Malnutrition medicine.anatomical_structure Liver chemistry Transferrin Peripheral nervous system Etiology Neurology (clinical) Nervous System Diseases business |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. 91:129-134 |
| ISSN: | 0303-8467 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0303-8467(89)80033-2 |
| Popis: | Dietary habits in 45 chronic alcoholics were assessed by the dietary history method, and plasma albumin and serum transferrin. These variables as well as clinical findings did not indicate general malnutrition, but a moderate deficiency in folate intake was found. There was no correlation between the nutritional variables and central and peripheral nervous system function investigated by neuroradiological, neuropsychological, and neurophysiological methods. Transketolase and thiamine-pyrophosphate effects were measured in a subgroup of alcoholics and compared to a control group. No differences were found and there was no correlation to central nervous system impairment. These findings do not support the hypothesis that nervous system damage found in chronic alcoholics is of nutritional etiology. |
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