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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 39, 1012-1022, Copyright © 1993 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Biological variability in concentrations of serum lipids: sources of variation among results from published studies and composite predicted values

SJ Smith, GR Cooper, GL Myers and EJ Sampson
Centers for Disease Control, Division of Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences, Atlanta, GA 30333.

To obtain the best estimates of the average intraindividual biological variability (CVb) in the concentrations of total cholesterol (TC), low- density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDLC), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLC), and triglyceride serum lipids in a person's blood, we evaluated results from 30 studies published from 1970 to 1992. The usually more applicable random-effects model estimated an average CVb of 6.1% for TC, 7.4% for HDLC, 9.5% for LDLC, and 22.6% for triglyceride. Composite estimates of the average CVb from all evaluated published studies by different models of estimation ranged from 6.0% to 6.4% for TC, from 6.2% to 7.5% for HDLC, from 7.0% to 9.6% for LDLC, and from 22.4% to 22.9% for triglyceride. Two important factors influenced the reported biological variation of the study subjects: (a) the magnitude of the variability of the analytical method used and (b) the design characteristics of the study--primarily the number of subjects, the sampling interval, and the number of measurements per subject. For TC, we found a statistically significant positive correlation between the reported mean CVb and both the number of study subjects and the analytical variation. For TC and LDLC we estimate CVb as a function of the study design features. The number of patient specimens required to obtain reliable estimates for serum lipid concentrations are determined from the CVb and the current analytical variation.




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