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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-1-22
pubmed:abstractText
We investigated the usefulness of the laboratory marker of alcohol consumption carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) in 101 consecutively admitted patients in a surgical and internal medical ward of a hospital in a rural wine-growing area. Four major aspects were considered: the influence of liver disease, the method of expression of CDT values (relative % vs absolute units/1), level and pattern of alcohol consumption and comparison with y-glutamyl transferase (GGT). The results show that %CDT is a more valuable discriminating marker of high alcohol consumption than absolute CDT values and its usefulness in this respect is independent of changes in serum total transferrin levels, as in liver disease. Sensitivity and specificity of % CDT were 70 and 98% respectively, compared with 65 and 83% respectively for GGT.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0735-0414
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
249-56
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8844030-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:8844030-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:8844030-Alcoholism, pubmed-meshheading:8844030-Austria, pubmed-meshheading:8844030-Biological Markers, pubmed-meshheading:8844030-Female, pubmed-meshheading:8844030-Hospitals, General, pubmed-meshheading:8844030-Hospitals, Rural, pubmed-meshheading:8844030-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:8844030-Liver Diseases, Alcoholic, pubmed-meshheading:8844030-Liver Function Tests, pubmed-meshheading:8844030-Male, pubmed-meshheading:8844030-Mass Screening, pubmed-meshheading:8844030-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:8844030-Patient Admission, pubmed-meshheading:8844030-Predictive Value of Tests, pubmed-meshheading:8844030-Reference Values, pubmed-meshheading:8844030-Transferrin, pubmed-meshheading:8844030-Wine, pubmed-meshheading:8844030-gamma-Glutamyltransferase
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Carbohydrate-deficient transferrin as a screening marker for drinking in a general hospital population.
pubmed:affiliation
Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie, Vienna, Austria.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article