The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and its short form, the AUDIT-C, the
main clinical instruments used to identify unhealthy drinking behaviors, are influenced by …

Liver transplantation (LT) teams must be adept at detecting, evaluating, and treating patients'
alcohol use, given its prominence among psychological and behavioral phenomena which …

Phosphatidylethanol (PEth) are phospholipids produced through non-oxidative ethanol
metabolism. They accumulate in red blood cells and have been traditionally analysed in …

Aims To evaluate the association between self-reported alcohol consumption and
phosphatidylethanol (PEth) concentrations in blood in a large general population study, and …

Phosphatidylethanol (PEth), which is formed by enzymatic reaction between ethanol and
phosphatidylcholine, is a direct marker for alcohol usage. PEth has a long elimination half …

Background The aim of this study was to compare the results of Phosphatidylethanol (PEth)
and carbohydrate‐deficient transferrin (CDT) in blood as biomarkers of alcohol consumption …

Background: Severe alcohol withdrawal syndrome (SAWS) is highly morbid, costly, and
common among hospitalized patients, yet minimal evidence exists to guide inpatient …

Background The aim was to estimate the prevalence of harmful alcohol use in relation to
socio-demographic characteristics among acutely ill medical patients, and examine …

Direct alcohol biomarkers, including urinary ethyl glucuronide (EtG), urinary ethyl sulfate
(EtS), and blood phosphatidylethanol (PEth), are used to monitor alcohol abstinence in …

Background The use of standard screening methods could improve the detection rate of
unhealthy alcohol use in patients admitted to psychiatric acute and emergency departments …