Baumgartner
Fakultäten » Medizinische Fakultät » Rechtsmedizin, Institut für » Prof. Dr. Walter Bär (emeritiert) » Baumgartner
Completed research project
| Title / Titel | Ethyl Glucuronide (EtG) in Hair: A Comparison between Self-declared Alcohol Consumption and EtG-Concentration | ||||
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| Original title / Originaltitel | Empirische Untersuchung zum Zusammenhang zwischen der Konzentration von Ethylglucuronid in den Haaren und Selbstauskünften zum Alkoholkonsum | ||||
| Summary / Zusammenfassung | Testing the driving ability for re-granting the driving licence is a major task of the department of traffic medicine of our institute. These examinations are required by the driving licence authorities in cases of driving under influence of drugs and/or alcohol. Nowadays we check for alcohol consumption and teetotalism, respectively, by analyses of ethyl glucuronide (EtG) in a hair sample. Actually only few data are available for the relation between the EtG-concentration in human hair and the amount of alcohol consumed. To interpret EtG-concentrations found in hair samples we currently use a cut-off value of 7 pg/mg and a threshold value differentiating between social drinkers and excessive alcohol consumption of 30 pg/mg. Self-declared alcohol consumption data were registered in a questionnaire during a face-to-face interview. The EtG-concentrations in the collected hair samples were analyzed by GC-NCI/MS after cleaning by SPE and derivatization with PFPA. To standardize, generally only the proximal 2 cm (0-2 cm) of hair were investigated. The amount of hair used for analysis ranged from 15 to 25 mg. |
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| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | Ethyl Glucuronide hair alcohol consumption | ||||
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| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
No project-specific funding |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Jan 2008 to Dec 2010 |