Combining serum carbohydrate-deficient transferrin and hair ethyl glucuronide to provide optimal information on alcohol use

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1347-1348

  Neels, Hugo ^a,b   Yegles, Michel ^c   Dom, Geert ^a   Covaci, Adrian ^a   Crunelle, Cleo L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Stuivenberg General Hospital   (Belgium)

^c LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE SANTÉ   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALCOHOL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CARBOHYDRATE DEFICIENT TRANSFERRIN; ETHYL GLUCURONIDE; FATTY ACID ESTER; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSFERRIN;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONICITY; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; LETTER; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIVER GRAFT; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BLOOD; DRINKING BEHAVIOR;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; HUMANS; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 84919897168     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2014.229377     Document Type: Letter

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