Laboratory investigations provide physicians with objective data to aid in disease diagnosis,
clinical decision making, and patient follow up. Clinical interpretation of laboratory test …

Sex steroids are chief regulators of gender differences in the skeleton, and male gender is
one of the strongest protective factors against osteoporotic fractures. This advantage in bone …

BACKGROUND Pediatric laboratory test results must be interpreted in the context of
interindividual variation and age-and sex-dependent dynamics. Reference intervals as …

BACKGROUND In a collaboration between the Canadian Laboratory Initiative on Pediatric
Reference Intervals (CALIPER) and the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS), we …

BACKGROUND Biological covariates such as age and sex can markedly influence
biochemical marker reference values, but no comprehensive study has examined such …

Background: We recently developed a classification system to assess skeletal maturity by
scoring proximal humeral ossification in a similar way to the canonical Risser sign. The …

Background Chronic cardiotoxicity is less common in male than in female patients receiving
doxorubicin and other anthracyclines at puberty and adolescence. We hypothesized that this …

Reference intervals (RIs) for biochemical and hematological markers determined using
healthy adult and/or pediatric populations are vital for clinical interpretation of laboratory test …

Objective: To describe reference values for blood counts obtained from laboratory tests in
the Brazilian adult population according to laboratory results from the National Health …

Reference intervals provide valuable information to medical practitioners in their
interpretation of quantitative laboratory test results, and are critical in the assessment of …