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  2. Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test - Wikipedia

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    The tool also mainly focuses on the patient's problems throughout their lifetime, rather than the problems currently displayed by the patient. [1] The questions throughout the screening tool operate in the past tense, which means that it is less likely to detect any problems with alcohol in its early stages, according to T. Buddy. [1]

  3. Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol

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    The Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol, commonly abbreviated as CIWA or CIWA-Ar (revised version), is a 10-item scale used in the assessment and management of alcohol withdrawal. [1] [2] Each item on the scale is scored independently, and the summation of the scores yields an aggregate value that correlates to the severity of ...

  4. Blood alcohol content - Wikipedia

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    Blood alcohol content (BAC), also called blood alcohol concentration or blood alcohol level, is a measurement of alcohol intoxication used for legal or medical purposes. [1] BAC is expressed as mass of alcohol per volume of blood. In US and many international publications, BAC levels are written as a percentage such as 0.08%, i.e. there is 0.8 ...

  5. Experts Dish on the Truth Behind Common Alcohol Myths

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    That means that if you have a blood alcohol concentration level of 0.08, the point at which it is illegal to drive in many countries, it takes about 5.5 hours to reduce the level to 0.00 ...

  6. Jurors hear about Karen Read's blood alcohol level as murder ...

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    He calculated that her blood alcohol content at 9 a.m., the time of the blood test, was between .078% and .083%, right around the legal limit for intoxication in Massachusetts.

  7. Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test - Wikipedia

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    The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) is a ten-item questionnaire approved by the World Health Organization to screen patients for hazardous (risky) and harmful alcohol consumption. It was developed from a WHO multi-country collaborative study, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] the items being selected for the AUDIT being the best performing of ...

  8. What Happens to Your Body When You Drink a Glass of Wine ...

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    A number of studies have linked red wine consumption with heart health benefits, including reduced LDL (known as “bad”) cholesterol levels, better blood pressure and blood vessel function and ...

  9. Phosphatidylethanol - Wikipedia

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    Levels of phosphatidylethanols in blood are used as markers of previous alcohol consumption. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] An increase of alcohol intake by ~20 g ethanol/day will raise the PEth 16:0/18:1 concentration by ~0.10 μmol/L, and vice versa if the alcohol consumption has decreased.