Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A study found that risk for systemic sclerosis was greatest in patients with the highest gamma-glutamyl ...

The purpose of this study published in the December 2009 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine was to identify chromosomal regions containing genes that affect the variation in the plasma levels ...

A simple blood test may identify people who have an increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. The test measures ...

Innsbruck, Austria - A test used primarily for liver function and alcohol consumption may be an important new marker for cardiovascular risk, according to the results of a new, large, epidemiological ...

The development of type 2 diabetes among middle-aged Japanese men is associated with parallel increases in levels of the liver enzymes alanine aminotransferase and gamma-glutamyl transferase, ...

Liver diseases are commonly diagnosed using serum enzyme assays, particularly for aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), gamma-glutamyl ...

Serum gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), a marker of oxidative stress, has been shown to be associated with diabetes mellitus in some population-based studies, but not all. Also, it is not clear if ...