TY - JOUR
T1 - Laboratory Measures of Alcohol (Ethanol) Consumption
T2 - Strategies to Assess Drinking Patterns with Biochemical Measures
AU - Sommers, Marilyn Sawyer
AU - Savage, Christine
AU - Wray, Janet
AU - Dyehouse, Janice M.
PY - 2003/1
Y1 - 2003/1
N2 - Alcohol (ethanol) use is a global, health-related problem that spans a continuum ranging from low-risk, at-risk, and problem drinking to alcohol dependence and chronic abuse. Clinicians and researchers alike have the need to quantify drinking patterns to determine the risk for adverse, health-related events such as injury, liver damage, and cancer. Biochemical measures of ethanol consumption are affected by temporal patterns of drinking as well as individual characteristics such as gender and age. The choice of a laboratory analysis to determine ethanol consumption is complex; no single laboratory test will predict drinking accurately across all drinking patterns, across the life span, and across gender. In conjunction with interviews and physical assessment, however, biochemical laboratory tests are sensitive tools used to measure both recent and long-term patterns of alcohol consumption.
AB - Alcohol (ethanol) use is a global, health-related problem that spans a continuum ranging from low-risk, at-risk, and problem drinking to alcohol dependence and chronic abuse. Clinicians and researchers alike have the need to quantify drinking patterns to determine the risk for adverse, health-related events such as injury, liver damage, and cancer. Biochemical measures of ethanol consumption are affected by temporal patterns of drinking as well as individual characteristics such as gender and age. The choice of a laboratory analysis to determine ethanol consumption is complex; no single laboratory test will predict drinking accurately across all drinking patterns, across the life span, and across gender. In conjunction with interviews and physical assessment, however, biochemical laboratory tests are sensitive tools used to measure both recent and long-term patterns of alcohol consumption.
KW - alcohol
KW - alcohol consumption
KW - biochemical indicators
KW - drinking patterns
KW - ethanol
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U2 - 10.1177/1099800402239624
DO - 10.1177/1099800402239624
M3 - Article
C2 - 12585784
AN - SCOPUS:0037268291
SN - 1099-8004
VL - 4
SP - 203
EP - 217
JO - Biological Research For Nursing
JF - Biological Research For Nursing
IS - 3
ER -