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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 35, 14-17, Copyright © 1989 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Improved method for calculating calcium fractions in plasma: reference values and effect of menopause [published erratum appears in Clin Chem 1989 Apr;35(4):670]

BE Nordin, AG Need, TF Hartley, JC Philcox, M Wilcox and DW Thomas
Division of Clinical Chemistry, Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide, South Australia.

Multiple linear regression analysis showed that total calcium was significantly and positively related to albumin, globulin, anion gap, and bicarbonate in plasma from 556 normal postmenopausal women. The residual constant of 1.21 mmol/L approximated the normal mean for ionized calcium in plasma. The coefficients derived from the multiple regression analysis were used to calculate ionized calcium from total calcium and ligand concentrations in a series of 105 clinical cases in whom ionized calcium was measured with the calcium electrode. The regression equation was y = 1.00x -0.0039 mmol/L, where x is measured and y calculated Ca2+ (r = 0.78, P less than 0.001). The protein-bound, ultrafiltrable, and complexed fractions of the calcium were also calculated for plasma from 69 normal young men, 66 normal young women, and 305 normal postmenopausal women. The increased plasma calcium in the postmenopausal group was accounted for by an increase in the complexed fraction, due to increases in plasma bicarbonate and anion gap.


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