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Alcohol-Mediated Organ Damages: Heart and Brain

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Pharmacology, February 2018
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Title
Alcohol-Mediated Organ Damages: Heart and Brain
Published in
Frontiers in Pharmacology, February 2018
DOI 10.3389/fphar.2018.00081
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Authors

Adam Obad, Ahmed Peeran, Janay I. Little, Georges E. Haddad, Sima T. Tarzami

Abstract

Alcohol is one of the most commonly abused substances in the United States. Chronic consumption of ethanol has been responsible for numerous chronic diseases and conditions globally. The underlying mechanism of liver injury has been studied in depth, however, far fewer studies have examined other organs especially the heart and the central nervous system (CNS). The authors conducted a narrative review on the relationship of alcohol with heart disease and dementia. With that in mind, a complex relationship between inflammation and cardiovascular disease and dementia has been long proposed but inflammatory biomarkers have gained more attention lately. In this review we examine some of the consequences of the altered cytokine regulation that occurs in alcoholics in organs other than the liver. The article reviews the potential role of inflammatory markers such as TNF-α in predicting dementia and/or cardiovascular disease. It was found that TNF-α could promote and accelerate local inflammation and damage through autocrine/paracrine mechanisms. Unraveling the mechanisms linking chronic alcohol consumption with proinflammatory cytokine production and subsequent inflammatory signaling pathways activation in the heart and CNS, is essential to improve our understanding of the disease and hopefully facilitate the development of new remedies.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 119 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 21 18%
Student > Bachelor 20 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 7 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 5%
Other 13 11%
Unknown 43 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 27 23%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 8%
Neuroscience 7 6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 6 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 4%
Other 17 14%
Unknown 47 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 January 2023.
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#1,535,222
of 24,739,153 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Pharmacology
#585
of 18,800 outputs
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#37,549
of 455,968 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Pharmacology
#24
of 319 outputs
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