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Objective laboratory indicators of alcohol consumption (mean corpuscular volume and serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (GPT), glutamyltransferase (γ-GT), and glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT)) were measured in 18 patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and 710 control patients. All of the indicators examined were more frequently found to be pathological in GBS patients, reaching significance for γ-GT and GPT. Some explanations for this result are discussed. It is concluded that alcohol consumption may be a risk factor for GBS.
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Kornhuber, J., Kornhuber, A.W., Kaiserauer, C.H. et al. Guillain-Barré syndrome and serum activities of gamma-Glutamyltransferase and glutamic-pyruvic transaminase. Eur Arch Psychiatr Neurol Sci 237, 317–319 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00380973
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