Lab blood tests

about 12%

Gene L. said:

Can someone tell me how a lab blood test for "glucose
serum" differs from a test for "glucose plasma"?

Thanks for any information you might be willing to share
with me.

Gene

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Gene L. said:

Can someone tell me how a lab blood test for "glucose
serum" differs from a test for "glucose plasma"?

Thanks for any information you might be willing to share
with me.

Gene

They are different names for the same thing.

Jim

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Ted,

Actually not.

The 12% difference is between WHOLE BLOOD and serum/plasma.

The glucose difference between serum and plasma is nil.

Blood can be collected in tubes that allow the blood to
clot (like red topped ones) or prevent clotting (blue,
lavender, green).

If the blood has clotted, the liquid portion of the blood
after centrifugation is SERUM. If it was anti-coagulated and
didn't clot, it is PLASMA.

The glucose content would be the same.

Cheers,

William C Biggs, MD

"Ted Rosenberg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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about 12%

Gene L. said:

Can someone tell me how a lab blood test for "glucose
serum" differs

from a

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

test for "glucose plasma"?

Thanks for any information you might be willing to share
with me.

Gene

--
"...in addition to being foreign territory the past is, as
history, a hall of mirrors that reflect the needs of souls
observing from the

present"

Quoted message said:

Glen Cook

Thank you for the correction

William C Biggs MD said:

Ted,

Actually not.

The 12% difference is between WHOLE BLOOD and
serum/plasma.

The glucose difference between serum and plasma is nil.

Blood can be collected in tubes that allow the blood to
clot (like red topped ones) or prevent clotting (blue,
lavender, green).

If the blood has clotted, the liquid portion of the blood
after centrifugation is SERUM. If it was anti-coagulated
and didn't clot, it is PLASMA.

The glucose content would be the same.

Cheers,

William C Biggs, MD

"Ted Rosenberg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

about 12%

Gene L. said:

Can someone tell me how a lab blood test for "glucose
serum" differs

from a

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

test for "glucose plasma"?

Thanks for any information you might be willing to share
with me.

Gene

--
"...in addition to being foreign territory the past is, as
history, a hall of mirrors that reflect the needs of souls
observing from the

present"

Quoted message said:

Glen Cook

--
"...in addition to being foreign territory the past is, as
history, a hall of mirrors that reflect the needs of souls
observing from the present" Glen Cook