title: Diagnosis of alcoholism.
abstract: Alcoholism is among the most prevalent of the difficult diseases to establish diagnoses in medicine. This article outlines a number of steps to help in identifying the alcoholic patient. These include: a careful history, several laboratory blood tests, simple paper-and-pencil tests, and recognition of alcohol-related medical disorders.
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008076:Cholesterol, HDL / Q000097:blood; D004796:Clinical Enzyme Tests; D004909:Erythrocyte Indices; D006801:Humans; D008111:Liver Function Tests; D011581:Psychological Tests; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000097:blood; D005723:gamma-Glutamyltransferase / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D008076:Cholesterol, HDL; D014280:Triglycerides; D005723:gamma-Glutamyltransferase