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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Hosp Med. 2010 Jul 13;6(1):22–27. doi: 10.1002/jhm.711

Table 2.

Summary of prior studies reporting age-specific cerebrospinal fluid protein concentrations.a

Author Year Number of Infants Age (days) Median (mg/dL) Mean ± SD (mg/dL)
Bonadio et al 1992 35 0–30 84 ± 45
40 30–60 59 ± 25
Ahmed et al 1996 17 0–7 81 ± 31
33 8–14 69 ± 23
25 15–21 60 ± 23
33 22–30 54 ± 16
Biou et al 2000 26 1–8 71
76 8–30 59
155 30–60 47
Wong et al 2000 99 0–60 60 59 ± 21
a

Ellipses indicate that the value was not reported by the authors