The alcoholic lung: epidemiology, pathophysiology, and potential therapiesAm J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 292: L813-L823, 2007
Epidemiological evidence gathered only in the past decade reveals that alcohol abuse independently increases the risk of developing the acute respiratory distress syndrome by as much as three- to fourfold.
This review focuses on the epidemiology and the pathophysiology of alcohol-induced lung dysfunction and discusses potential new treatments suggested by recent experimental findings.
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