Limits of usual biochemical alcohol markers in cord blood at term: A fetal/maternal population-based study

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 546-548

  Gallot, Denis ^a,b   De Chazeron, Ingrid ^c   Boussiron, Didier ^c   Ughetto, Sylvie ^c   Vendittelli, Françoise ^b   Legros, Franz J ^d   Roszyk, Laurence ^c   Llorca, Pierre Michel ^c   Lemery, Didier ^a,b   Sapin, Vincent ^a,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF CLERMONT FERRAND   (France)

^d CHU Andre Vesale   (Belgium)

^e INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT); Carbohydrate deficient transferrin; Fetal alcohol syndrome disorder; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALCOHOL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CARBOHYDRATE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSFERRIN;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BIRTH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS BLOOD; FRANCE; HUMAN; MATERNAL BLOOD; MATERNITY WARD; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERM BIRTH; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

EID: 34247533398     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2007.098     Document Type: Article

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