Estrogen, thyroid, liver disease, insulin resistance, age, and medications affect SHBG.
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What’s searchable?Often calculated. Ask your clinician to consider SPEP/IFE for unexplained abnormalities.
Calculated; interpret component values.
Binding abnormalities and severe illness may affect some free-hormone assays.
Affected by thyroid-binding globulin, pregnancy, estrogen, and medications.
Ask your clinician to read this result with iron, transferrin saturation, and ferritin.
Ask your clinician to read this result with testosterone or estradiol, FSH, cycle phase, and pituitary context.
Ask your clinician to read this result with age, ovarian status, testosterone/estradiol, and pituitary context.
Ovarian reserve marker, not egg quality. PCOS and hormonal treatments may affect interpretation.
Pulsatile secretion makes random GH difficult to interpret; stimulation/suppression testing may be needed.
Ask your clinician to read this result with calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, vitamin D, and kidney function.
Age, sex, nutrition, liver disease, diabetes, and assay matter.
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