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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 39, 1723-1725, Copyright © 1993 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Within- and between-subject biological variations of follitropin, lutropin, testosterone, and sex-hormone-binding globulin in men

J Valero-Politi and X Fuentes-Arderiu
Servei de Bioqimica Clinica, Hospital Princeps d'Espanya, Barcelona.

The within-subject and between-subject biological variation of the serum concentrations of follitropin, lutropin, sex-hormone-binding globulin, and testosterone; the ratio between the serum concentrations of testosterone and sex-hormone-binding globulin; and the concentration of testosterone in saliva have been studied in a group of 20 men during 12 months. The between-subject coefficients of variation (CVs) were 36.0% for follitropin, 37.0% for lutropin, 42.7% for sex-hormone- binding globulin, 21.3% for testosterone in serum, 28.8% for testosterone in saliva, and 51.6% for the ratio between serum concentrations of testosterone and sex-hormone-binding globulin. The medians of the within-subject CVs for the respective analyses and ratio were 17.3%, 24.0%, 12.1%, 10.9%, 17.3%, and 9.4%. These data were used to calculate the desirable imprecision, the critical difference for significant change detection, and the index of individuality.




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