Phosphatidylethanol vs Transdermal Alcohol Monitoring for Detecting Alcohol Consumption Among Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Alcohol biomarkers can improve detection of heavy alcohol use in clinical care, yet cutoffs for phosphatidylethanol (PEth), a blood biomarker, have not been established.

Objective

To determine the optimal cutoff for PEth for heavy alcohol consumption in a study of middle-age and older adults.

Design, setting, and participants

This was a 4-week diagnostic study of adults with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) and current alcohol consumption, recruited from general cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology outpatient clinics from September 2014 to September 2019. Data were analyzed from October 2021 to March 2022.

Main outcomes and measures

The main aim was to determine the optimal PEth cutoff for heavy alcohol consumption, using the Secure Continuous

SUBMITTER: Hahn JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10498325 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature