Recent research has confirmed that alcohol may put blood pressure up. The lower your blood pressure the better, but it is best below 130/80, lower still in some patients. A careful research study recommends less than 6 drinks or units a week, not really more than one a day. More than this leads to damage in the brain. Breast cancer increase.
The UK recommendation are now 2016
Each gram of alcohol puts systolic blood pressure up 0.24mmHg, diastolic 0.16 mmHg. This means 1 pint of beer (2 units, each unit 8g alcohol) with 16gm of alcohol, if drunk every day, will put the systolic blood pressure up (16 x 0.25=) 4mmHg.
| How often do you have a drink containing alcohol? |
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| How many units of alcohol do
you drink on a typical day when you are drinking? |
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| How often do you have six or more
units of alcohol on one occasion? |
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| How often during the last year
have you found that you were not able to stop drinking once you had started? |
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| How often during the last year have you failed to do what was normally expected from you because of drinking? |
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| How often during the last year
have you needed a first drink in the morning to get yourself going after a heavy drinking session? |
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| How often during the last year have you had a feeling of guilt or remorse after drinking? |
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| How often during the last year
have you been unable to remember what happened the night before because you had been drinking? |
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| Have you or someone else been injured as
a result of your drinking? |
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| Has a relative or friend or doctor or another
health worker been concerned about your drinking or suggested you cut down? |
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| Record total
of specific items here If total over 8, alcohol use disorder very likely |
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| If you scored positive and would
like to read some suggestions about what to do next, close this document
(save it to disk first if you like) and return to the front page of
the About
Drinking Problems section of the Aquarius
website. CAGE
questions, BMJ (AUDIT
Screening tool, from Aquarius). |
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