Continuous Objective Monitoring of Alcohol Use: Twenty-First Century Measurement Using Transdermal Sensors
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Continuous objective monitoring of alcohol use: twenty-first century measurement using transdermal sensors.
Transdermal alcohol sensors continuously collect reliable and valid data on alcohol consumption in vivo over the course of hours to weeks. Transdermal alcohol readings are highly correlated with breath alcohol measurements, but transdermal alcohol levels lag behind breath alcohol levels by one or more hours owing to the longer time required for alcohol to be expelled through perspiration. By pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0145-6008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2012.01869.x