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  2. Alcohol dependence - Wikipedia

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    Alcohol dependence is a previous (DSM-IV and ICD-10) psychiatric diagnosis in which an individual is physically or psychologically dependent upon alcohol (also chemically known as ethanol). In 2013, it was reclassified as alcohol use disorder in DSM-5 , [ 1 ] which combined alcohol dependence and alcohol abuse into this diagnosis.

  3. Alcohol abuse - Wikipedia

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    Alcohol abuse was a psychiatric diagnosis in the DSM-IV, but it has been merged with alcohol dependence in the DSM-5 into alcohol use disorder. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Globally, excessive alcohol consumption is the seventh leading risk factor for both death and the burden of disease and injury, [ 4 ] representing 5.1% of the total global burden of disease ...

  4. Alcoholism - Wikipedia

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    The term "alcoholism" was split into "alcohol abuse" and "alcohol dependence" in 1980's DSM-III, and in 1987's DSM-III-R behavioral symptoms were moved from "abuse" to "dependence". [116] Some scholars suggested that DSM-5 merges alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence into a single new entry, [117] named "alcohol-use disorder". [118] DSM-5 ...

  5. What It Means if You Have Borderline High Cholesterol—And ...

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    High cholesterol is defined as having a total cholesterol number of 240 mg/dL or above. ... eating a balanced diet (and scaling back on starches, alcohol, and high-fat foods), quitting smoking, ...

  6. Polysubstance - Wikipedia

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    Polysubstance was used in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-IV 1994) to refer to three or more drugs (including alcohol) to which an individual has become dependent (i.e., meets the diagnostic criteria for substance dependence). The criteria were changed in the DSM-5.

  7. Substance-related disorder - Wikipedia

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    The more recently published DSM-5 combined substance abuse and substance dependence into a single continuum; this is simply known as substance use disorder and requires more presenting symptoms before a diagnosis is made. It also considers each different substance as its own separate disorder, based upon the same basic criteria.

  8. Your Cholesterol Could Be A Key Indicator Of Dementia. A ...

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    The researchers discovered that people who had high fluctuations in their cholesterol levels had a 60 percent higher risk of developing dementia and a 23 percent greater risk of cognitive decline.

  9. Hypercholesterolemia - Wikipedia

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    Hypercholesterolemia, also called high cholesterol, is the presence of high levels of cholesterol in the blood. [1] It is a form of hyperlipidemia (high levels of lipids in the blood), hyperlipoproteinemia (high levels of lipoproteins in the blood), and dyslipidemia (any abnormalities of lipid and lipoprotein levels in the blood). [1]