The test method matters. Healthy-population upper limits may be lower than many commercial ranges.
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What’s searchable?Age, bone turnover, liver source, pregnancy, and isoenzymes affect interpretation.
Alcohol, medications, metabolic disease, and cholestasis may elevate.
Fasting, Gilbert syndrome, hemolysis, and liver disease may alter result.
Ask your clinician to review direct and indirect fractions together.
Inflammation, hydration, liver synthesis, renal loss, and nutrition affect result.
Ask your clinician to review albumin, globulin, and electrophoresis when indicated.
Often calculated. Ask your clinician to consider SPEP/IFE for unexplained abnormalities.
Calculated; interpret component values.
Negative acute-phase reactant; not a stand-alone nutrition marker.
Broad tissue marker; hemolysis can cause false elevation.
Exercise, muscle mass, sex, race, trauma, injections, and statins affect values.
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