Suicidal behavior in patients with alcohol dependence in biological markers.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 13 Suicidal behavior in patients with alcohol dependence in biological markers [Keywords:] alcohol dependence; suicide; mortality; biological markers Alcohol dependence has repeatedly refers to the individual long-term alcohol consumption leads to loss of control of drinking characterized by a chronic progressive disease, causing mental and physical changes and social and legal issues. On the individual in terms of alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence will result in a variety of hazards. Alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence is a serious social problem in today’s world and the medical problem. Reports indicate that [1,2], alcohol dependence is a high mortality, disease, mainly related to alcohol-dependent patients on the high suicide rate. This alcohol-dependent patients on biological markers of suicidal behavior are summarized below. An alcohol dependence in suicidal behavior and mortality Suicidal behavior and the relationship between alcohol dependence is very complex, because alcohol dependence causes not only with the social, family and work environment, but also psychological factors and mental illness. Alcohol dependence led to the reasons for increased risk of suicide is not yet clear, biological research focused on alcohol on the 5  HT (5  HT) metabolism. Studies in many countries to support this theory, and explicitly put forward the amount of alcohol consumption and suicide mortality in the relationship between the [2], per capita alcohol consumption increased a liter, suicide mortality rates will be increased by 2% to 3% [3 ~ 5] . However, another study [6 ~ 8] found that the relationship between alcohol dependence and suicide rate is also affected by age, gender and country-specific effects. In fact, alcohol consumption in each country is the country the prevalence of alcohol dependence were positively related. Norway’s physicians had done 40 a follow-up investigation found that alcohol dependence and suicide mortality,