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  • Clinical chemistry
  • Physiology
  • Medical diagnostics

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  • Arterial oxygen content (CaO2) and cardiac output are vital for tissue oxygen delivery.
  • Existing CaO2 reference values from 1984 and 1990 require reevaluation.
  • The impact of smoking on CaO2 needs further assessment.

Purpose:

  • To reevaluate existing arterial oxygen content (CaO2) reference values.
  • To assess the influence of smoking on CaO2.
  • To derive updated, population-based reference value equations for CaO2.

Summary:

  • Analyzed data from 1018 participants in the Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP).
  • Calculated CaO2 from capillary blood gas analysis.
  • Developed new reference value equations for CaO2 using quantile regression, controlling for sex, age, and smoking.

Impact:

  • Established that lower limits of normal for CaO2 decrease with age.
  • Determined that current smoking does not significantly affect the lower limits of normal for CaO2.
  • Created sex-, age-, and smoking-specific normal value equations for CaO2 calculation.