Bilirrubinas séricas en personas de 23 a 42 años de la ciudad de Cuenca-Ecuador, 2009-2010

Abstract

Was evaluated serum levels of bilirubin in healthy people 23 to 42 years in the urban parishes of the city of Cuenca, who helped apply a survey to assess their health status and thus become part of our study. We obtained blood samples from fasting, they were processed in the laboratory of the Diagnostic Center for identification, we used the spectrophotometer Genesis 20, and the commercial reagent Wiener Bilirubin results relate to the variables of age, sex, height and weight. We used SPSS 15.0 where the average value of total bilirubin was: 0.8 ± 0.009 mg / dl, a standard deviation of 0.3 mg / dl, the minimum value of 0.2 mg / dl and the maximum 1.5 mg / dl. Direct bilirrubin was the average value: 0.15±0.002 mg/dl, a standard deviation of 0.06 mg/dl, the mínimum value of 0.01 mg/dl and the máximum value of 0.30 mg/dl; and indirect bilirubin average value: 0.50 ± 0.007 mg / dl, a standard deviation of 0.23 mg / dl, the minimum value of 0.00 mg / dl and the máximum value of 1.00mg/dl. There is no significant correlation between total bilirubin, age (p = 0.243), with sex (p = 0.212), height (p = 0.721), weight (p = 0.865) were not significant direct bilirubin relation ships - age(p = 0.148), with sex (p = 0.264); size (p = 0.909), weight (p = 0.215) and also between indirect bilirubin – size (p = 0.217), weight (p = 0.361), being significantly related indirect bilirubin - sex (p = 0.003), age (p = 0.046).

Keywords: bilirubin, reference value, technical and laboratory procedures, healthy, Cuenca-Ecuador.