title: A correlational study of carbohydrate-deficient transferrin values and alcohol consumption among Hispanic college students.
abstract: One hundred and forty-eight U.S. college students from a small southwestern university were asked to provide or complete the following: the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST), a structured alcohol-use interview, and a 10-ml blood sample to be assayed for carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) levels and gamma-glutamyl-transpeptidase (GGTP) activity. Using the data obtained in the interview, only 2 females and 5 males were identified as heavy drinkers. Conclusions regarding the efficacy of the biochemical markers are therefore limited. It was found that CDT levels were significantly and positively correlated with various measures of alcohol consumption among males. There was no similar association between CDT, or GGTP, and alcohol consumption within the female sample.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas 87701.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: La Grange
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Anton
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Crow
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Garcia
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000201:enzymology; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D014168:Transferrin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism; D005723:gamma-Glutamyltransferase / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; D014168:Transferrin; C056759:carbohydrate-deficient transferrin; D005723:gamma-Glutamyltransferase