title: Serum gamma-glutamyl transferase and a somatic health score in middle-aged men.
abstract: In an ongoing population investigation of middle-aged men in Malmö, Sweden, several health screening variables showed strong but crude individual covariations with the level of the hepatic enzyme, serum gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT). These variables were combined, according to an analysis of their normal distributions, into a score index which exhibited a much smoother correlation with low, normal, and elevated levels of GGT when tested in a random population subsample. It is concluded that this scoring system may find further utilisation as a general descriptive method of recording statistical covariations between health screening tests and sum them up.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001835:Body Weight; D005951:Glucose Tolerance Test; D006262:Health; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood; D008055:Lipids / Q000097:blood; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011674:Pulse; D005723:gamma-Glutamyltransferase / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D007328:Insulin; D008055:Lipids; D005723:gamma-Glutamyltransferase