Comparative performance of biomarkers of alcohol consumption in a population sample of working-aged men in Russia: the Izhevsk Family Study

To assess the performance of a range of biomarkers of alcohol consumption in a heavy-drinking population of working-aged Russian men.



Cross-sectional study of men originally sampled at random from a population register.


Izhevsk, a Russian city with a population of 650 000 people.



A total of 1023 men aged 27–59 years living in Izhevsk who took part in a health check examination in