American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Volume 198, Issue 4 , Pages 407.e1-407.e5, April 2008

Measurement of direct ethanol metabolites suggests higher rate of alcohol use among pregnant women than found with the AUDIT—a pilot study in a population-based sample of Swedish women

Presented at the 11th Congress of the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism, Berlin, Germany, Sept. 23-26, 2007.

  • Friedrich Martin Wurst, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatric University Clinic, Basel, Switzerland
    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy II/Addiction Medicine, Christion-Doppler Clinic, Paracelecus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
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  • Erika Kelso, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
    • ,
  • Wolfgang Weinmann, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Toxicology, Institute of Legal Medicine, University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Fritz Pragst, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Legal Medicine, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany
    • ,
  • Michel Yegles, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Toxicology, Laboratoire National de Santé, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
    • ,
  • Inger Sundström Poromaa, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprints: Inger Sundström Poromaa, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, 751 85 Uppsala, Sweden.

Received 11 April 2007; received in revised form 1 August 2007; accepted 12 October 2007. published online 28 January 2008.

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 Cite this article as: Wurst FM, Kelso E, Weinmann W, et al. Measurement of direct ethanol metabolites suggests higher rate of alcohol use among pregnant women than found with the AUDIT—a pilot study in a population-based sample of Swedish women. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2008;198:407.e1-407.e5.

 This study was supported by grants from Systembolagets forskningsfond, Sweden.

PII: S0002-9378(07)02023-6

doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2007.10.801

American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Volume 198, Issue 4 , Pages 407.e1-407.e5, April 2008

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