[Opisthorchiasis and alcoholism: a clinico-epidemiological and social psychology study].

Abstract

49% of patients who abused alcohol were detected among 119 persons with O. felineus infection in the focus of the infection in the Komi-Permiak Autonomous Okrug by screening questionnaire test. The abuse of alcohol in the given focus was shown to be associated with consumption of low-salt fish mostly by men. Alcoholism promotes failure to keep medical recommendations on the prevention of Opisthorchis infection and reduced motivation of opisthorchiasis treatment, and due to re- and superinvasion it decreases the efficiency of chemotherapy. Comparing the results of praziquantel treatment a month or a year after, treatment efficiency among those abusing alcohol was shown to decrease from 88% to 68%.

• Authors: A M Bronshteĭn, M I Lukomskaia
• Journal: Meditsinskaia parazitologiia i parazitarnye bolezni (Med Parazitol (Mosk)) 1990 Jan-Feb Issue 1 Pg. 44-6 ISSN: 0025-8326 [Print] Russia (Federation)
• Vernacular Title: Opistorkhoz i alkogolizm: kliniko-épidemiologicheskoe i sotsial'no-psikhologicheskoe issledovanie.
• PMID: 2141102 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Praziquantel

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Aged
• Alcoholism (complications, epidemiology, psychology)
• Disease Reservoirs (statistics & numerical data)
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Opisthorchiasis (drug therapy, epidemiology, psychology)
• Praziquantel (therapeutic use)
• Prevalence
• Psychology, Social
• Russia (epidemiology)