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Normal Laboratory Values
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Blood Tests: Normal Values
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Other Tests: Normal Values

By

Osvaldo Padilla

, MD, MPH, Texas Tech Health Science Center

Last full review/revision Sep 2018| Content last modified Sep 2018
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Reference values vary based on several factors, including the specific laboratory that supplies them. A patient's laboratory test values should be interpreted based on the reference value of the laboratory in which the test was done; the laboratory typically provides these values with the test result. Some of these values are listed in alphabetical order in the following table.

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Normal Laboratory Values: Other

Test

Specimen

Conventional Units

SI Units

Gastric acid secretion:

  • Basal, females

Gastric fluid

0.2–3.8 mEq /h

0.2–3.8 mmol/h

  • Basal males

Gastric fluid

1–5 mEq /h

1–5 mmol/h

  • Peak, females

Gastric fluid

11–21 mEq /h

11–21 mmol/h

  • Peak, males

Gastric fluid

18–28 mEq /h

18–28 mmol/h

Lipase

Ascitic fluid

< 200 U/L

< 3.33 mckat/L

Sperm concentration

Semen

20–150 x 106/mL

20–150 x 109/mL

mckat = microkatal.
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