Dear Colleagues
Sydney Rosalki, who retired a couple of years ago from the Royal Free but still does some consultancy work I believe, is a living encyclopaedia on alcohol and changes in analytes thereof. Check his entry in the RCPath list or ACB list for a contact number.
As regards high alxohol level use, I was taught that the defintion of this is someone who drinks more than his doctor.
Lars Breimer
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Subject: RE: ALT ratio in high level alcohol usage
High level alcohol usage is when the Captain of your 747 Holiday Jet is drunk in charge. :-)
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Prof. T. Reynolds,
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Queens Hospital,
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Subject: AST and AST:ALT ratio in high level alcohol usage
Does anyone measure AST and/or AST:ALT in "high level alcohol usage"? A
governmental agency is stating that AST and ideally AST:ALT should be
used as "screening tool for high level alcohol usage" (other parameters
mentioned are MCV and GGT). This apparently is at the advice of experts
in the field of alcohol treatment and liver disease.
Sorry! I don't have a definition of "high level alcohol usage".
Presumably, it refers to a conviction of drink and drive.
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