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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 29.
Published in final edited form as: Hepatology. 1999 Jun;29(6):1649–1654. doi: 10.1002/hep.510290618

Table 2.

Bile Acid Composition in Bile at Entry % of Total Bile Acids

PBC All Strata

Bile
Acid
Normal Persons7 95% Confidence Limits Difference of
Mean from
Normal P < .05


Mean SD Mean SD Lower Upper
CA 36.5 8.3 57.4 18.6 53.7 61.1 Increased
CDCA 38.5 8.0 31.5 15.5 28.4 34.6 Decreased
DCA 15.8 8.4 8.0 9.3 6.2 9.8 Decreased
UDCA 2.1 1.4 0.6 0.9 0.4 0.8 Decreased
LCA 0.7 0.4 0.3 1.0 0.1 0.5 Decreased
SLCA 0.6 0.3 0.6 1.1 0.4 0.8 Not significant
NIP 5.8 2.5 1.6 2.3 1.1 2.1 Decreased