Journal article
A statistical method to calculate blood contamination in the measurement of salivary hormones in healthy women
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Previous studies have reported that salivary concentrations of certain hormones correlate with their respective serum levels. However, most of these studies did not control for potential blood contamination in saliva. In the present study we developed a statistical method to test the amount of blood contamination that needs to be avoided in saliva samples for the following hormones: cortisol, estradiol, progesterone, testosterone …
Authors
Behr GA; Patel JP; Coote M; Moreira JCF; Gelain DP; Steiner M; Frey BN
Journal
Clinical Biochemistry, Vol. 50, No. 7-8, pp. 436–439
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
May 2017
DOI
10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2016.12.005
ISSN
0009-9120