Publications by authors named "Max Bleiweis"
Article Synopsis
- Alcohol use disorders are common worldwide, and monitoring alcohol abstinence is important in various clinical settings.
- The direct biomarker phosphatidylethanol (PEth) is being used more frequently to track alcohol abstinence, but its formation from incidental alcohol sources, like hand sanitizer, is not well studied.
- A study involving 15 participants using high-alcohol content hand sanitizer multiple times a day found that blood PEth levels did not exceed a significant threshold, contributing new insights into how incidental alcohol exposure can affect PEth levels.
Direct biomarkers of ethanol are used to monitor individuals who are required to abstain from ethanol consumption. In recent years, blood phosphatidylethanol (PEth) has gained acceptance in clinical and forensic contexts as an abstinence marker. Its elimination half-life of several days provides a window of detection of days to weeks.
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