Controlling for serum albumin level improves the correlation between serum fatty acid ethyl esters and blood ethanol level

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 265-268

  Morfin, John Paul ^a   Kulig, Clark ^a   Everson, Gregory ^b   Beresford, Thomas ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Albumin; Ethanol; Fatty Acid Ethyl Esters (FAEEs)

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID ESTER; OLEIC ACID; PALMITIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; SERUM ALBUMIN; STEARIC ACID;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COVARIANCE; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ETHANOL; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LIVER; OLEIC ACIDS; PALMITIC ACIDS; SERUM ALBUMIN; STEARATES;

EID: 33846514644     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2006.00302.x     Document Type: Article

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