Effects of stomach content on the breath alcohol concentration-transdermal alcohol concentration relationship.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Wearable devices that obtain transdermal alcohol concentration (TAC) could become valuable research tools for monitoring alcohol consumption levels in naturalistic environments if the TAC they produce could be converted into quantitatively-meaningful estimates of breath alcohol concentration (eBrAC). Our team has developed mathematical models to produce eBrAC from TAC, but it is not yet clear how a variety of factors affect the accuracy of the models. Stomach content is one factor that is known to affect breath alcohol concentration (BrAC), but its effect on the BrAC-TAC relationship has not yet been studied.

Methods

We examine the BrAC-TAC relationship by having two investigators participate in four laboratory drinking sessions with varied stomach content condi

SUBMITTER: Saldich EB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8848829 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature