title: [Accuracy of HDL cholesterol measurements].
abstract: The widespread use of different methods for the determination of HDL-cholesterol (in Europe: sodium phosphotungstic acid/MgCl2) in connection with enzymatic procedures (in the USA: heparin/MnCl2 followed by the Liebermann-Burchard method) but common reference values makes it necessary to evaluate not only accuracy, specificity, and precision of the precipitation step but also of the subsequent cholesterol determination. A high ratio of serum vs. concentrated precipitation reagent (10:1 V/V) leads to the formation of variable amounts of delta-3.5-cholestadiene. This substance is not recognized by cholesterol oxidase but leads to an 1.6 times overestimation by the Liebermann-Burchard method. Therefore, errors in HDL-cholesterol determination should be considered and differences up to 30% may occur between HDL-cholesterol values determined by the different techniques (heparin/MnCl2 - Liebermann-Burchard and NaPW/MgCl2-CHOD-PAP).
mesh_terms: D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood*; D008076:Cholesterol, HDL; D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D006801:Humans; D008075:Lipoproteins, HDL / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D008076:Cholesterol, HDL; D008075:Lipoproteins, HDL; D002784:Cholesterol
vernacular_title: Richtigkeit der HDL-Cholesterinmessung.