Abuse of alcohol means to be a social and economical problem and thereby is poorly detectable by using anamnetic data. Carbohydrate Deficient Transferrin (CDT) is a specific and commonly accepted biochemical marker to objectively detect chronical abuse of alcohol. Permanent abuse of alcohol leads to abnormal isoforms of Transferrin (CDT) by influencing the transferrin biosynthesis.
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