Age- and sex-dependent reference intervals for uric acid estimated by the truncated minimum chi-square (TMC) approach, a new indirect method

Although the concentration of uric acid in serum or plasma is known to depend on sex and age and is subject to diurnal variation, the influence of these covariates on the reference interval (RI) is often neglected. Consequently, the values in the literature vary considerably. Therefore, we reinvesti...

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Main Authors: Haeckel Rainer, Wosniok Werner, Torge Antje, Junker Ralf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2020-06-01
Series:Journal of Laboratory Medicine
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/labmed-2019-0164