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Attending and Presenting at Scientific Conferences:
Published in Lynne M. Bianchi, Research during Medical Residency, 2022
Alice Wang, Dominik Greda, Lynne M. Bianchi, Calhoun D. Cunningham
Socializing is an important part of any conference but pay attention to how you present yourself (Box 15.2). For example, it is not unusual for a group to get together at the end of the day to discuss work over a beer or other alcoholic beverage. In some fields, such gatherings are considered the norm. However, there is an important distinction between discussing work over a drink and drinking. If you choose to drink with colleagues, due so with caution and maintain your professional standards. Some careers are helped by a conversation over a beer, some are hurt, usually because there is more than one drink imbibed. Of course, if you do not usually drink alcohol, a conference would not be the place to start.
Food Types, Dietary Supplements, and Roles
Published in Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy, Food and Lifestyle in Health and Disease, 2022
Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy
The most common examples of alcoholic beverages are wines and beers. Beer is usually made from cereals (mainly malt and sometimes corn, rice, and hops), whereas wine can be produced from fruits (especially grapes, and sometimes plum, cherry, pomegranate, etc.) and cereals (rice). Alcohol has been produced from antiquity about seven thousand years ago, firstly in China, and then spread to Middle East and Europe. Nowadays, the most widely consumed alcoholic drinks are wines and beers. Other alcoholic beverage types include liquor, cider, whisky, vodka, tequila, brandy, sake, rice alcohol, rum, and absinthe. All these drinks contain ethanol in different degrees, called alcohol by volume (abv), and expressed in ml of pure ethanol per 100ml (%). Cider and beer have the lowest degree of alcohol among alcoholic drinks, in general 5% abv (usually between 4–6% for beer and 2–8% for cider). Red wine and white wine have about 12–14% abv. Light liqueurs, sake, rice alcohol, rice wine or Mijiu, and vermouth have about 20% abv. Spirits vary between 20–70% abv, in which whisky, rum, vodka, brandy, gin, all contain about 40% abv, while absinthe varies between 55–90% abv (45).
Lifestyle Medicine in Menopause and Bone Health
Published in Michelle Tollefson, Nancy Eriksen, Neha Pathak, Improving Women's Health Across the Lifespan, 2021
These results highlight the need to assess alcohol and tobacco use in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women. It is recommended that women consume no more than one alcoholic beverage daily and never more than two standard drinks in one sitting.52 If risky behaviors are identified, patients should be referred for interventions that target smoking or alcohol cessation.
Association of beta-2-microglobulin, cystatin C and lipocalin-2 with stroke risk in the general Chinese population
Published in Annals of Medicine, 2023
Juanying Zhen, Shuyun Liu, Ryan Yan Lam Kam, Guoru Zhao, Hao Peng, Jianguo Liang, Aimin Xu, Chao Li, Lijie Ren, Jun Wu, Bernard Man Yung Cheung
Smoking was defined as smoking any tobacco product daily or occasionally or having a history of smoking. Alcohol consumption was defined as consuming any type of alcoholic beverage (e.g. beer, wine, liquor) at least once a week. Being physically active was defined as participating in 30 or more minutes of moderate or vigorous activity three days per week. BMI was calculated by dividing participants’ body weight (in kilograms) by their height (in meters squared). BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 was considered overweight/obese. Blood pressure was measured after a 15-minute rest in the right arm at the heart level with participants seated with feet flat on the floor and back supported. Hypertension was defined as the self-reported previous diagnosis, average blood pressure at or above 140/90 mmHg, or taking antihypertensive medication. Hypercholesterolaemia was defined as the self-reported previous diagnosis, total serum cholesterol level ≥ 5.2 mmol/L or taking medication for hypercholesterolaemia. Diabetes was defined as the previous diagnosis of diabetes, fasting plasma glucose level ≥ 7.0 mmol/L or taking medication for diabetes.
Perception of safety and consumption of alcoholic beverages during pregnancy
Published in Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2022
C. O. Adiri, E. E. Asimadu, M. I. Nwafor, S. O. Nweze, C. I. Ukaegbe
Popova et al. (2016) in a systematic review on alcohol consumption during pregnancy in the WHO Africa region, estimated the prevalence of alcohol consumption during pregnancy in Nigerian women to be between 2.4% and 15.4% (mean, 8.1%). However, the prevalence in a study amongst pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in a tertiary hospital in Enugu, southeast Nigeria was 22.6% (Onwuka et al. 2016); and another in Port Harcourt, southern Nigeria gave a prevalence of 56.8% (Ordinioha and Brisibe 2015). This exposes their babies to the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes due to alcohol consumption. Alcohol intake is a modifiable risk factor affected by various socio-cultural norms and social factors (Nwagu et al. 2017). Also, knowledge of the harmful effects of alcohol consumption, and the type of alcoholic beverage, may affect alcohol consumption amongst pregnant women (Meurk et al. 2014; Addila et al. 2020). Meurk et al. (2014) in a qualitative study amongst pregnant women in Australia found that women assessed the risk of consumption of alcohol in pregnancy based on the type of beverage rather than the alcoholic content.
Body Mass Index Alters the Predictive Value of the Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio and Systemic Inflammation Response Index in Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients
Published in Nutrition and Cancer, 2022
Luana Dalbem Murad, Thays de Queiroz Silva, Arthur Orlando Corrêa Schilithz, Mariana Costa Monteiro, Leonardo Borges Murad, Eliane Fialho
Characteristics as age, sex, clinical tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) staging, tumor location, differentiation degree, alcohol consumption, smoking habit, treatment type, death occurrence, pretreatment body weight, and height and pretreatment body mass index (BMI) were evaluated. Pretreatment lymphocytes, neutrophils, and monocytes concentrations also were used. Alcohol consumption was categorized as "yes" (individuals who drink some type of alcoholic beverage > 1x/week, regularly), "no" (non-alcohol users), and "ex-alcoholics"(stopped consuming before the diagnosis disease) (21). Similarly, cigarette smoking was categorized as “yes” (smoked until diagnosis), “no” (non-smokers), and “ex-smoker” (smoked up to five years before the disease was diagnosed) (22).