Citation

Forsberg L, Halldin J, Ekman S, Rönnberg S. Alcohol 2002; 27(2): 77-82.

Affiliation

Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Clinical Alcohol and Drug Addiction Research, Magnus Huss, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 76, Stockholm, Sweden. lars.forsberg@spo.sll.se

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12106826

Abstract

In a sample of 149 emergency surgical patients, binge drinking was assessed through interviews. Sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values were calculated for three questionnaires-the Malma modification of brief MAST (Mm-MAST), CAGE, and the Trauma Scale-and two biological markers-carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) and gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT). Binge drinking was reported by 42% of male patients, aged 16-29 years; 66% of female patients, aged 16-29 years; 27% of male patients, aged 30-73 years; and 16% of female patients, aged 30-73 years. All alcohol biomarkers had low sensitivity to binge drinking among women. Mm-MAST alone and CAGE and CDT combined were sensitive to identifying binge drinking among men aged 30-73 years. The three questionnaires combined had a sensitivity of 0.82 to binge drinking among men aged 16-29 years.

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