Alcohol Blood Test Results Receiving test results Test results from an alcohol blood test may be available soon after the test is conducted. Patients may receive their results within a few hours to several business days. Test results can be provided through the testing location, the patient’s ...
All patients had a specific alcohol history taken by one clinician and CDT results were correlated with reported alcohol intake by the patient and where relevant by their relatives. Sensitivity and specificity of the CDT assay were calculated using an alcohol intake of 60 g/day as the cut-off ...
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Carbohydrate-Deficient Transferrin as a Marker of Alcohol Abuse: Relationship to Alcohol Consumption, Severity of Liver Disease, and Fibrogenesis Indeed, PBC is one of the few non-alcohol-induced liver diseases that can cause false positive results in the CDT test for diagnosis of alcohol abuse ....
The short-term test-retest-reliability of the early CPM-effect using the heat-cold-pain method in healthy subjects achieved satisfying results in terms of the ICC. The SRD of the early CPM effect showed that an individual change of > 20 NRS can be attributed to a real change rather ...
We found significant effects of sex, age, smoking, previous alcohol dependence, body mass index, and diastolic hypertension on the alcohol-CDT dose-response curve. These variables either affect test sensitivity or require adjustment of reference intervals. The results also provide insight into the ...
Carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) may now be suggested the most valuable marker for diagnosis of alcohol abuse. The aim of our study was to evaluate the Axis % CDT assay ; this method is based on anion exchange chromatography in disposable microcolumns followed by a turbidimetric ...
Results:The mean values of CDT and GGT of the three groups increased with an increasing alcohol intake, but there was a poor correlation between CDT and GGT in the complete study group (r = 0.3). The specificities of CDT and GGT were comparable, 83% and 78%, respectively. The ...
Conclusions:Screening properties of the AUDIT are superior to %CDT, MCV, and GGT for detection of alcohol problems in injured patients and are not clinically significantly enhanced by the use of biomarkers.doi:10.1111/j.1530-0277.2009.00917.x...
For all 1250 subjects, the amount consumed correlated significantly better with BAT (0.65) than with CDT (0.52), GGT (0.44) or AST (0.40) alone. Conclusions: The BAT is more accurate than commonly used single biological markers in detecting harmful alcohol use, even when only half the input...