CDT reference values for monitoring chronic alcohol abuse in pregnancy
Anno:
2020
Tipologia prodotto:
Articolo in Rivista
Tipologia ANVUR:
Articolo su rivista
Lingua:
Inglese
Referee:
No
Nome rivista:
Clinica Chimica Acta
ISSN Rivista:
0009-8981
N° Volume:
507
Intervallo pagine:
156-160
Parole chiave:
Alcohol abuse; CDT; Pregnancy; Reference values
Breve descrizione dei contenuti:
Carbohydrate Deficient Transferrin (CDT) is one of the most used biomarkers for monitoring alcohol use in pregnancy. However, its effective application in this context is hampered by the demonstrated physiological progressive increase during pregnancy (even in abstinent women) of CDT values, which in the third trimester can reach values close or exceeding the cut-offs usually adopted in clinical and forensic diagnostics. The present work was aimed at the re-assessment of CDT reference values in pregnancy.