Phosphatidylethanol Compared with Other Blood Tests as a Biomarker of Moderate Alcohol Consumption in Healthy Volunteers: A Prospective Randomized Study.

Summary, in English

It is generally agreed that traditional alcohol biomarkers lack in sensitivity to detect hazardous alcohol consumption. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the ability of phosphatidylethanol (PEth) and traditional alcohol markers to detect moderate alcohol consumption and to distinguish between moderate alcohol consumption and abstinence.

• Author: Stergios Kechagias; Dženeta Nezirević Dernroth; Anders Blomgren; Therese Hansson; Anders Isaksson; Lisa Walther; Robert Kronstrand; Bertil Kågedal; Fredrik H Nystrom
• Department/s: Division of Clinical Chemistry and Pharmacology
• Publishing year: 2015
• Language: English
• Pages: 399-406
• Publication/Series: Alcohol and Alcoholism
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 4
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25882743?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agv038
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Topic: Substance Abuse
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1464-3502