A total of 63 alcohol-dependent patients undergoing detoxification and 64 light-drinking controls completed a stimulus-response compatibility (SRC) task, which assesses the speed of categorization of alcohol-related pictures by making symbolic approach and avoidance movements.
The categorization of adolescent alcohol use as high, medium and low in terms of both frequency and quantity of consumption may seem self-evident and the added value of using latent class analysis to derive these categories may not be immediately apparent.
The development of quantitative criteria will lead to better understanding of the pathological stages of the disease, provide researchers an improved understanding of the aetiology of alcohol dependence, and facilitate categorization and severity determination in individual patients [5].
The categorization of the alcohol-variable is; 0 units of alcohol per week, less than 1 unit of alcohol per week, 1-2 units of alcohol per week, and more than 2 units of alcohol per week.
Based on our results, we speculate that the inhibitory effects of phenolic compounds is a function of the combination of the occurrence of functional side groups (such as the methoxy and hydroxyl groups) and occurrence of unsaturated bonds in the structure of the compounds regardless of the categorization of the compounds as aldehydes, acid, alcohols or ketones.
* Number of subjects Categorization according to alcohol use behaviors also revealed significant differences in the components of MetS, with significant differences in blood pressure, fasting plasma glucose, triglyceride levels, and waist circumference among the groups.
This article addresses a pair of categorization issues concerning the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure that have important public health consequences: the labeling of individuals as fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) versus fetal alcohol effects (FAE) or alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder (ARND), and the categorization of prenatal exposure dose by thresholds.
This categorization was based on the opinion of MSM community leaders, who believed that a man regularly drinking alcohol at least once a week can be labeled as a 'frequent' user of alcohol (since social drinking is less likely to take place every week in this context, where the sample predominantly comes from the lower socioeconomic group).
