Browsing by Subject "Gamma glutamyl transferase"

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Association of alcohol consumption with specific biomarkers: a cross-sectional study in South Africa

Pisa, Pedro T.; Vorster, Hester H.; Kruger, Annamarie; Margetts, Barrie; Loots, D.T. (BioMed Central, 2015)

Alcohol consumption plays an important role in the health transition associated with urbanization in developing countries. Thus, reliable tools for assessing alcohol intake levels are necessary. We compared two biological ...
Copeptin relates to a fatty liver and measures of obesity in a South African population with mixed ethnicities

Enhörning, Sofia; Malan, Leoné (Springer, 2019)

Purpose Elevated copeptin, a vasopressin marker, is linked to metabolic disease, and obese rats with low-vasopressin concentration had a decreased risk of liver steatosis. We here investigated the association between ...