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Long-term abstinent alcoholics have a blunted blood glucose response to 2-deoxy-d-glucose.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Lloyd, Gareth |
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Abstract | Thank you for the opportunity to respond to Dr Lloyd’s letter concerning our study. The length of abstinence from alcohol reported by the alcoholics in our sample ranged from 6 to 76 months. We chose 6 months as the minimum cut-off time to be considered a long-term abstinent alcoholic after careful review of the literature. Unfortunately, there are relatively few studies examining biological features of alcoholics with long-term abstinence from alcohol. Many of these defined longterm abstinence as less than 6 months. We continue to be interested in the possibility that sweets can help some alcoholics abstain from alcohol in the early recovery period. To clarify this issue, what is needed is a prospective study of recently abstinent alcoholics. Such a study should characterize both the quantity of sweets the alcoholics consume, as well as their ‘use’ of sweets to mitigate alcohol craving. |
| Starting Page | 27 |
| Ending Page | 33 |
| Page Count | 7 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://alcalc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/38/3/287.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 12711667v1 |
| Volume Number | 38 |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Journal | Alcohol and alcoholism |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Alcoholics Choose (action) Craving Deoxyglucose Ethanol Glucose Metabolism Disorders Hematological Disease Sugar candy |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
