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Markers of alcohol abuse 141

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Figure 2. ROC plots for mAST, CDT, GST and GGT in distinguishing those consuming ^20 g ethanol/day (n = 54) from

those consuming

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140 P.C. Sharpeeta\. Table 2 Percentage of patients in each subgroup with values greater than the cut-off Assay ALT AST AST/ALT CDT GGT GST mAST mAST/tAST Cut-off 42 (u/l) 35 (u/l) 1.5 12 (u/l) 60 (u/l) 6 (ng/ml) 5 (u/l) 0.07 Teetotallers 0 0 25.0 0 0 12.5 0 87.5 also calculated over the range of results observed and ROC curves plotted. These curves were plotted for those consuming ^40g ethanol/day against those consuming

c 0) c o Q) CO o Q. 0 3 Markers of alcohol abuse 141 D DmAST A-—-A CDT •---•GST • *GGT 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 True Negative Fraction (1-specificity) Figure 2. ROC plots for mAST, CDT, GST and GGT in distinguishing those consuming ^20 g ethanol/day (n = 54) from those consuming

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