Smoking and γ-glutamyltransferase: opposite interactions with alcohol consumption and body mass index.

BACKGROUND: Smoking has recently been suggested to synergistically interact with alcohol intake as a determinant of serum gamma-glutamyltransferase (γ-GT), an emergent powerful predictor of disease and mortality. This study investigated whether this also applies to higher smoking and alcohol exposur...

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Main Authors: Lutz P Breitling, Volker Arndt, Christoph Drath, Dietrich Rothenbacher, Hermann Brenner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2948041?pdf=render