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Racial Comparisons of Alcohol Metabolism: Background, Problems, and Results
Author(s) -
Reed T. Edward
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
alcoholism: clinical and experimental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 153
eISSN - 1530-0277
pISSN - 0145-6008
DOI - 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1978.tb04699.x
Subject(s) - variation (astronomy) , alcohol , race (biology) , metabolism , biology , demography , biochemistry , sociology , physics , botany , astrophysics
The background of and problems in making comparisons among different racial* groups in their rates of alcohol metabolism are reviewed. The results of five studies are discussed. It is concluded that the variation among races in rate of alcohol metabolism is not different in kind than variation among individuals within a given race. There are good reasons to expect the former variation to be smaller than the latter.