title: Detection of ethanol in urine of abstaining alcoholics.
abstract: A simple method using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry was developed to determine a low concentration of ethanol in urine. The detection limit was 0.02 mM ethanol. A mean +/- SD ethanol concentration in urine of 0.21 +/- 0.17 mM was measured in 11 alcoholics after 14 days abstention, a level at least 10 times higher than that of control subjects who had no alcoholic drinks during a period of 7 days prior to the test.
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000652:urine*; D000431:Ethanol / Q000652:urine*; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D008832:Microchemistry
chemical_list: D000431:Ethanol