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Alcohol abuse increases mortality by cardiovascular disease and relatively high arteriosclerosis process. The effect of alcohol on body can not be noticed even if there are severe cardiac disorders because it paralyzes judgment and perceptual function of people. Also, alcohol uptake could disturb actions of various drugs that are used for angina pectoris and heart failure. In this research, the change of blood flow rate of normal and alcoholic state was investigated as a method to understand the effect of alcohol on human body. The rate of blood flow was measured using a commercial blood flow rate measurement system. The blood flow rate appears higher in alcoholic persons than normal persons from this measurement. This change is considered to investigate indirectly the effects of alcohol uptake on cardiovascular disease like high blood pressure, ischemic heart disease, etc.
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Jung, Jh., Park, H., Jeon, Ay., Kim, Ch., Ro, Jh., Jeon, Gr. (2007). Research on the change of blood flow rate between normal and alcoholic subjects. In: Magjarevic, R., Nagel, J.H. (eds) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36841-0_275
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