Biochemical and haematological indicators of excessive alcohol consumption.
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Biochemical and haematological indicators of excessive alcohol consumption.
Discriminant function analysis was used to determine the optimum combination of haematological and biochemical tests which gave the best discrimination between hospital patients with high and low alcohol intakes. We studied 265 patients with alcohol-related disease, 133 gastroenterology outpatients drinking less than 20 g of alcohol per day, and 104 patients with a variety of non-alcoholic live...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gut
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0017-5749
DOI: 10.1136/gut.22.12.992