CDT Testing Detects Patients' Drinking Levels

An alcohol-screening test that measures carbohydrate deficient transferrin in the blood can detect patients' drinking habits and potentially could lower the cost of care for those with chronic diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure.

The alcohol biomarker test, known as a CDT test, increases the number of problem drinkers detected in primary care patients, but researchers say that many primary care physicians do not know about the CDT technology. Read More.

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