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© 1981 Oxford University Press

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A Multivariate Assessment of Alcohol Consumption

JOHN B WHITFIELD*, JANET K ALLEN*, MICHAEL ADENA**, HUGH G GALLAGHER{dagger} and WILLIAM J HENSLEY*

*Department of Biochemistry, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Camperdown, New South Wales 2050, Australia
**Department of Population Biology, Research School of Biological Sciences, The Australian National University Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
{dagger}Medicheck Referral Centre 65 Bathurst Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia

Whitfield JB [Department of Biochemistry, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales 2050, Australia], Allen JK, Adena M, Gallagher HG and Hensley WJ. A multivariate assessment of alcohol consumption. International Journal of Epidemiology 1981, 10: 281–288.

Subjects attending a large, multiphasic health screening centre in Sydney, Australia estimated their alcohol con-sumption and specimens of their blood were analysed. The most useful unhvariate estimates of alcohol consumption were erythrocyte mean corpuscular volume and plasma espartate-eminotransferase, gamma-glutamyl-transpeptidase, triglycerides and uric acid. The most statistically significant of these tests have been combined to form a multi-variate predictor of alcohol intake which is more successful in identifying heavy-drinkers than single tests. To describe this population further, and to aid comparisons between populations, information about non-drinkers has also been provided.

Revised 21 January 1981


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