Comparison of the combined marker GGT-CDT and the conventional laboratory markers of alcohol abuse in heavy drinkers, moderate dinkers and abstainers

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 528-533

  Hietala, Johanna ^a   Koivisto, Heidi ^a   Anttila, Petra ^a   Niemelä, Onni ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CARBOHYDRATE DEFICIENT TRANSFERRIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE MARKER; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSFERRIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; ALCOHOLISM; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEMPERANCE; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 33748797671     PISSN: 07350414     EISSN: 14643502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agl050     Document Type: Article

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