The tests are useful in diagnosing myopathy.
Alcoholic myopathy can occur after a bout of heavy drinking.
They studied patients with muscular dystrophies and other myopathies.
The inherited metabolic myopathies do not present for the first time in elderly people.
In the elderly, inclusion body myositis is the commonest acquired myopathy.
However, alcohol can certainly cause an acute myopathy.
Although the latter is perhaps not strictly speaking a myopathy, it will be considered here.
