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Comprehensive laboratory reference intervals for routine biochemical markers and pro-oxidant-antioxidant balance
Hamideh Ghazizadeh1,2,3, Mary Kathryn Bohn4,5, Roshanak Ghaffarian Zirak2
1Student Research Committee, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Background:
Reference values of biochemical markers are influenced by various parameters including age, sex, region, and lifestyle. Hence, we aimed to determine age- and BMI-specific reference intervals (RIs) for important clinical biomarkers in a healthy adult male population from northeastern Iran. This is also the first study to investigate reference values for pro-oxidant-antioxidant balance (PAB).
Methods:
Seven hundred and twenty (720) healthy men, aged 20-60 years, were recruited from Sarakhs in the northeast region of Iran. Reference values for lipid profiles (total cholesterol, triglyceride, HDL-C and LDL-C), fasting blood glucose, inflammatory factors (hs-CRP and PAB), minerals (zinc and copper), uric acid, and blood pressure were measured and statistically analyzed to establish accurate age- and BMI-specific RIs in alignment with CLSI Ep28-A3 guidelines.
Results:
RIs for lipid profiles, inflammatory factors, minerals, and uric acid required no age partitioning with the exception of fasting blood glucose and blood pressure, which demonstrated significantly higher values in subjects aged 50 years and older. Among these biomarkers, only uric acid, blood pressure, and triglycerides demonstrated statistically significant increases in reference value concentrations with increasing BMI.
Conclusion:
In this study, age- and BMI-specific RIs for several biochemical markers were determined in healthy adult Iranian men. Partitioning by age and BMI was only required for a few analytes with most demonstrating no statistically significant changes with these covariates. These data can be useful to monitor various diseases in male adults with varying BMI in this region and others.
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