(n.) One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three presenting characteristics--smoking, teetotalling and bleeding episode in the past--were associated with early symptomatic relapse.
(2) Organized teetotalers were examined with regard to gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) in the serum.
(3) The effect of chronic alcohol consumption on Na(+)-K+ ATPase, Na(+)-Li+ countertransport, outward Na(+)-K(+)-Cl- cotransport system and the Na+ leak was investigated in red blood cells from 18 normotensive subjects with a daily alcohol intake of more than 150 g. The study was repeated after 3 months of alcohol withdrawal, and results were compared with a group of 20 healthy normotensive teetotalers.
(4) The levels of both plasma acetaldehyde and hemoglobin-associated acetaldehyde were significantly higher in patients reporting to a center for alcohol treatment than the levels encountered in teetotalers.
(5) Campbell, a teetotaller, also discloses in today's extracts that the pressure of working in Downing Street became so great that he started drinking again around the turn of the millennium.
(6) This study provides no evidence for alcohol-related inhibition of 11 beta-OHSD, despite substantially higher blood pressures in heavy drinkers compared to teetotallers.
(7) Apparently, men who are life-long abstainers (teetotallers) experience fewer life-events and perceive less stress than moderate drinkers, while moderate drinkers experience less stress than heavy drinkers.
(8) Subjects who handled pesticides were non-smokers and teetotalers and the data were compared with the matched control group.
(9) In female students the average CDT of heavy drinkers did not differ significantly from that of social drinkers but in teetotalers CDT was significantly (p less than 0.03) lower than in female alcohol users.
(10) Both teetotallism and alcoholism were more common among relatives of teetotallers than among relatives of social drinkers.
(11) PA returned to within 1 standard deviation of levels found in teetotalers by 5 days, whereas HbAA remained elevated for the 28 days of the study.
(12) Only two of six nonsurvivors (33%) succeeded in abstaining from alcohol, while eight of twelve survivors (67%) became teetotalers (P less than 0.05).
(13) Recent longitudinal data suggest teetotalers, especially those who have never smoked, have the lowest coronary heart disease mortality of all.
(14) To study serum beta-hexosaminidase (beta-HEX) as a marker of heavy drinking, it was compared with GGT, ASAT, and ALAT in three study groups: twenty-five drunken arrestees, 16 social drinkers, and 27 teetotallers.
(15) EEFA were not found in teetotalers, and were found in low concentrations in some of the social drinkers.
(16) Mean serum beta-HEX levels were two times higher among drunken arrestees than among social drinkers or teetotallers.
(17) All had drunk unpasteurized milk as children, were teetotallers, ate a high animal fat diet, and were well educated.
(18) Of 68 patients re-examinated, 12 were now teetotallers and six had markedly reduced there intake.
(19) In order to explore their potential usefulness as markers of alcohol abuse, the EEFA concentration and the activity of EEFA-synthesizing enzyme were therefore determined in adipose tissue from men belonging to the following categories: teetotalers, social drinkers, alcoholics under treatment, or established alcoholics found to have died as a result of alcohol intoxication.
(20) Serum and urinary beta-hexosaminidase (SHEX and UHEX) were determined in 32 alcoholic men admitted to inpatient detoxification treatment for seven days, and in 27 teetotallers.