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Oats Supplementation and Alcohol-Induced Oxidative Tissue Damage

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Alcohol has been a widely used and abused substance throughout human civilization, with use reported as early as the Neolithic period circa 10,000 B.C.[1]. Alcohol remains a highly popular substance today with approximately 51 % of Americans over the age of 21 reporting alcohol use. Of these individuals, 11 % meet the criteria for alcohol abuse with approximately 18 million alcoholics in the United States. The consequences of alcohol abuse are numerous including liver cirrhosis, liver transplantation [2], and death occurring secondary to traffic accidents [3]. Thus, it is clear that chronic alcohol use/abuse is a significant public health problem.

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The authors wish to especially thank Maliha Shaikh, M.S.; Lijuan Zhang, M.D.; and Phillip Engen for their contributions to the research that made this chapter possible. In addition, we wish to acknowledge that this research was made possible with support through NIH/NIAAA grants AA013645, AA020216, and RC2AA01940 (A.K) and AA018729 (Y.T.).

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    Christopher B. Forsyth Ph.D., Yueming Tang M.D., Ph.D., Robin M. Voigt Ph.D. & Ali Keshavarzian M.D., FRCP, FACP, FACG, AGAF

  2. Internal Medicine, John H Stroger Hospital of Cook County, 30 Severance Circle, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44118, USA

    Turan Rai M.D.

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Forsyth, C.B., Tang, Y., Voigt, R.M., Rai, T., Keshavarzian, A. (2013). Oats Supplementation and Alcohol-Induced Oxidative Tissue Damage. In: Watson, R., Preedy, V., Zibadi, S. (eds) Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-047-2_16

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