Prevalence of Alcohol-Related Medical Problems among Excessive and Heavy-Drinking Women in a Romanian Emergency Hospital
Autori:
Corina Silvia POP, Cristian POMOHACI, Romit\ IUCU,
Mihaela STINGU, Roxana Maria NEMES
Cod: ISSN: 1583-3410 (print), ISSN: 1584-5397 (electronic)
Dimensiuni: pp. 41-55
How to cite this article:Pop, C.S., Pomohaci, C., Iucu, R., Stingu, M. Nemes, R.M. (2015). Prevalence of Alcohol-Related Medical Problems among Excessive and Heavy-Drinking Women in a Romanian Emergency Hospital. Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala, 51, 41-55. |
Abstract:
Today alcohol consumption among women represents a global health problem
by the social, medical and economic effects involved. Gender differences as to
alcohol consumption refer both to number of people affected and different sociomedical
pathology. An epidemiological study was initiated to evaluate the prevalence
and types of alcohol-related medical affections developed by excessive
and heavy-drinkers women hospitalised in an internal medicine service. The study
was an epidemiological unicentric prospective qualitative and quantitative one.
All adult women hospitalised at the Internal Medicine Department during one year
were registered. Of the patients who admitted that they drank alcohol, 97 women
were included in the study group; they declared they used to drink two or more
drinks per day, viz. 8 or more drinks per week. The study group comprised women
considered as excessive alcohol consumers. 69.1% were 41-69 years old, 58.8%
had higher and secondary education and 72% lived in urban areas. 68 patients
presented clinical symptoms of the alcoholic liver disease, 8.2% were diagnosed
with alcoholic cardiomyopathy, 41.2% with at least one psychiatric affection. The
general mortality from all causes in the study group was 17.5% and the complications
of the liver disease represented the cause for death in 41% of total. The
study covers a broad pathology, from gastroenterological to neuropsychiatric
aspects, aiming an exhaustive presentation of alcohol-related medical problems
with excessive and heavy-drinkers women. Further investigations should focus on
the connections between consumption and certain diseases and determine significant
independent risk factors with prognosis value and also on a more detailed
research of the implications on public policies (social and educational).
Keywords:
alcohol consumption, female drinkers, medical perspective, social problem, social public policy.
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