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Clinical Chemistry 29: 871-873, 1983;
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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 29, 871-873, Copyright © 1983 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Ferritin concentrations in plasma from capillary (finger prick) blood and venous blood compared

LA Mejia and FE Viteri

Investigating the feasibility and validity of determining plasma ferritin concentration in blood obtained by finger prick, we studied 29 adults (ages 21-49 years) and 35 children (ages 14-66 months). Blood was sampled simultaneously in the same subject from both the antecubital vein (venous blood) and by finger pricking (capillary blood). The plasma was obtained by centrifugation. Ferritin concentration was determined by immunoradiometric analysis. Ferritin concentration in plasma from capillary blood was significantly higher than in venous plasma (p less than 0.01). This difference was more marked in children. The correlation between ferritin from the two blood sources was highly significant (r2 = 0.945 and 0.994 for samples from adults and children, respectively), and the slopes of the respective regression lines in both children and adults were significantly different from 1 (p less than 0.0001). We conclude that, despite the close association between the two procedures, the determination of ferritin concentration in capillary blood plasma overestimates the concentration of ferritin in venous blood plasma.




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