Day-to-day variation in serum ferritin concentration in healthy subjects

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We report our observations on day-to-day variation in serum ferritin, serum iron, total iron-binding capacity, and percent saturation of binding proteins with iron in 13 ostensibly healthy subjects during five weeks. The average intrasubject coefficients of variation were 14.5, 28.5, 4.8, and 28.0%, respectively. Precision studies on control samples showed greater within-assay and between-assay analytical variation for serum ferritin than for serum iron or total iron-binding capacity. Evidently, serum ferritin varies less in a given individual from day to day than do serum iron and percent iron saturation. Thus, a single measurement of serum ferritin may be a more reliable index of iron stores than an isolated determination of either serum iron or percent iron saturation.

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Pilon, V. A., Howanitz, P. J., Howanitz, J. H., & Domres, N. (1981). Day-to-day variation in serum ferritin concentration in healthy subjects. Clinical Chemistry, 27(1), 78–82. https://doi.org/10.1093/clinchem/27.1.78

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