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Lab Tests for Alcoholism.
Although laboratory tests can help identify alcoholism in patients who will not disclose a drinking problem to their physicians, abnormal results may herald significant liver damage.
Dr. Michael E. Scott, medical director of Sierra Tucson in Tucson, Ariz., a drug and alcohol treatment facility, said that physical findings of alcoholism in a patient are "9 years too late," since profound damage has already been taking place over that time.
Early identification of alcoholism is more likely with open physician-patient communication and verbal screening questions, but there are some laboratory tests that can aid in the diagnosis, he said at a psychopharmacology conference sponsored by the University of Arizona.
Good indicators on a lab report include:
* GGT. [gamma]-Glutamyltransferase is quite sensitive and specific for alcohol abuse damage and is elevated in two-thirds of ...
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...architecture (indicating that absence of celiac disease), 37% had elevated IgG antigliadin and/or tissue-transglutaminase antibodies...Specificity was highest (76%) for the combination of HLA-DQ2 and elevated IgG antigliadin and/or tissue-transglutaminase antibodies...
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- City awaiting lab tests for Lions Beach.
- Newspaper article from: Janesville Gazette (Janesville, WI) July 3, 2007 700+ words
...results back from the state Laboratory of Hygiene until this afternoon. The beach, on Palmer Drive, was closed Friday due to elevated bacteria levels. A likely culprit for the high levels of E. coli bacteria is the feces of waterfowl that washed into the...
- Lab Tests Online expanding to 3 more European countries.
- Newspaper article from: Medical Device Daily July 29, 2005 700+ words
...American Association for Clinical Chemistry Lab Tests Online expanding to 3 more European countries...that the content of the U.S. web site Lab Tests Online would be translated to reflect...countries: Germany, Italy and Spain. Lab Tests Online is a web site for consumers to...
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- Newspaper article from: Biotech Week July 1, 2009 700+ words
...denied. The Patient Access to Critical Lab Tests Act (S.1220) will eliminate burdensome...hospitals from ordering revolutionary lab tests needed to clarify complicated diagnoses...have early access to the most effective lab tests. We have a growing class of advanced...
- Briefly Noted: CAP to partner in Lab Tests Online; Grant backs development of...
- Newspaper article from: Diagnostics & Imaging Week October 31, 2002 700+ words
Briefly Noted CAP to partner in Lab Tests Online The College of American Pathologists...partner in the continued development of Lab Tests Online, a patient education web site...president of CAP. Joining forces with Lab Tests Online gives the college and our member...
- New Web Site Provides Latest Information on Lab Tests; 'Lab Tests Online' New...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 24, 2001 700+ words
Lab Tests Online is a single resource where health...information on a comprehensive array of lab tests and topics vital to the management of...laboratory professionals who do the testing, Lab Tests Online is a unique tool to help consumers...
- Health: Lab tests essential but have to be used judiciously.
- News wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International July 27, 2006 700+ words
...27 (PPI): The experts say that Lab tests of the patients are essential but they have to be used judiciously."Lab tests are important to come to a diagnosis...and his own diagnosis too. But all lab tests have to be supported with clinical...
Source: HighBeam Research, Lab Tests for Alcoholism.