Assessment of the 99th or 97.5th percentile for cardiac troponin i in a healthy pediatric cohort

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1574-1576

  Kavsak, Peter A ^a   Rezanpour, Atoosa ^a   Chen, Yunqi ^b   Adeli, Khosrow ^c  

^a HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANALYTICAL ERROR; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE ASSESSMENT; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; LETTER; PEDIATRICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; VIETNAMESE; BLOOD; FEMALE; MALE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

EID: 84924437855     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2014.228619     Document Type: Letter

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