Diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease

Table 5 Sensitivity and specificity of biomarkers in detecting harmful or heavy alcohol consumption[105-107]

Biomarker	AST	ALT	MCV	CDT	CDT + GGT	CDT + GGT + MCV
Sensitivity	47%-68%	32%-50%	45%-48%	63%-84%	83%-90%	88%
Specificity	80%-95%	87%-92%	52%-94%	92%-98%	95%-98%	95%

AST: Aspartate aminotransferase; ALT: Alanine aminotransferase; MCV: Mean corpuscular volume; CDT: Carbohydrate-deficient transferring; GGT: Gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase.