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Gender does not influence cystatin C concentrations in healthy volunteers

  • Letícia Schwerz Weinert , Aline Bodanese Prates , Fernando Barcellos do Amaral , Marina Zerwes Vaccaro , Joíza Lins Camargo und Sandra Pinho Silveiro
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 18. Dezember 2009
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Abstract

Background: Current data are conflicting about the influence of gender on cystatin C concentrations. The goal of this study was to determine the reference interval for serum cystatin C in normal Brazilian subjects, taking into account the influence of gender.

Methods: Ninety-seven healthy volunteers, aged 18–70 years, 44% male, had glomerular filtration rate (GFR) measured using a 51Cr-EDTA method and estimated with the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) study equation. Serum cystatin C was measured using a turbidimetric method, and creatinine by the Jaffe method.

Results: Mean serum cystatin C was not significantly different between males and females, 0.62±0.12 vs. 0.65±0.12 mg/L, respectively (p=0.26). However, median serum creatinine was significantly higher in men [97 (80–115) vs. 80  (53–88) μmol/L; p=0.0001]. There were also no significant differences between genders with respect to GFR measured using 51Cr-EDTA (103±14 for males and 106±19 mL/min/1.73 m2 for females, p=0.47), and estimated with the MDRD equation (86±12 vs. 83±16 mL/min/1.73 m2, respectively, p=0.24).

Conclusions: There was no effect of gender on serum cystatin C, as well as on measured and estimated GFR.

Clin Chem Lab Med 2010;48:405–8.


Corresponding author: Letícia Schwerz Weinert, Serviço de Endocrinologia do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Rua Ramiro Barcelos, 2350 – Prédio 12, 4° andar, 90035-903, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil Phone: +55 51 33598127,

Received: 2009-7-13
Accepted: 2009-11-3
Published Online: 2009-12-18
Published in Print: 2010-03-01

©2010 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin New York

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