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Alcohol abuse, physical fitness and the prevention of relapse
Published in John Kerr, Amanda Griffiths, Tom Cox, Workplace Health, Employee Fitness and Exercise, 2020
Alcohol abuse affects physical health detrimentally in various ways that seriously increase the risk of illness as well as premature death. The metabolic consequences of alcohol abuse show up in reduced aerobic work capacity and signs of myopathy in skeletal muscles as well as in cardiomyopathy. A particularly serious long-term consequence is the risk of health problems in children who grow up in alcohol-abusing families, or in adults with a family history of alcohol abuse. Several studies have been performed to assess the beneficial consequences of physical training as part of an alcohol abuse intervention during inpatient treatment. A consistent pattern of findings suggests that aerobic work capacity improves significantly over a period of 4 to 5 weeks of rehabilitation. The improvement is reflected in aerobic work capacity (V02 max) as well as in lung function (peak expiratory flow). Recent findings suggest that intervention involving exercise activities that are preferred by the patient and, therefore, intrinsically enjoyable to some extent significantly improve the probability of long-term abstinence. Although the importance of these new approaches needs to be further explored in future research, there are several arguments to recommend strongly physical training as an important element in prevention and rehabilitation in cases of alcohol abuse.
Modeling the length-of-stay of patients with geriatric diseases or alcohol use disorder using phase-type distributions with covariates
Published in IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, 2021
Wanlu Gu, Neng Fan, Haitao Liao
According to the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 14.1 million adults at age of 18 and older (5.6% of this age group) had alcohol use disorder (AUD) in U.S. (Alcohol Facts and Statistics, 2020). Following the ICD-10 (2016) code, the alcohol related disorders include alcohol abuse, alcohol dependence, alcohol use, and unspecified. Among the alcohol related disorders, alcohol abuse is a heterogeneous set of behaviors that include any pattern of ethyl alcohol intake that causes medical and social complications (Cloninger et al., 1981). It also influences children in both genetic and environmental aspects.