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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Biochem. 2006 Sep 1;39(11):1071–1079. doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2006.08.009

Table 1.

βLH and βFSH before and after heating.

β LH β FSH
not heated heated not heated heated
N 216 213 216 216
# undetectable 72 3 0 5
# detectable 144 210 216 211
Mean (SD) pmol/L 14.7 (21.5) 36.4 (36.2) 85.4 (80.8) 71.5 (65.7)
Mean (SD) pmol/L differences, heated - not heated 21.7* (23.9) −13.9† (28.8)
*

p = 0.0013

†

p = 0.0571