Carbohydrate deficient transferrin for the assessment of recent alcohol intake in excessive drinkers;Transferrina carbohidrato-deficiente, gammaglutamil transferasa y volumen corpuscular medio en la evaluación de la ingesta alcohólica reciente de bebedores excesivos

Revista Medica de Chile

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 375-381

  Glasinovic R , Juan Carlos ^a   Lobos P, Ximena ^b   Scrivanti A, Mirella ^b   Severín H , María Cecilia ^b   Quiroga G , Teresa ^b   Moncada R , Claudio ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Alcohol drinking; Alcoholism; Gamma glutamyltransferase; Transferrin

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBOHYDRATE DEFICIENT TRANSFERRIN; CARBOHYDRATE-DEFICIENT TRANSFERRIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 0347784845     PISSN: 00349887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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