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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bioanalysis. 2014 Oct;6(20):2721–2732. doi: 10.4155/bio.14.139

Table 4.

Specificity: percentage difference in antiretroviral measured when lipemia present.

Analyte N (values reported) PD <±5 n(%) PD ± 5–10 n(%) PD >±10 n(%) CPL
ATV 11 5 (45%) 5 (45%) 1 (10%) -
DRV 14 8 (57%) 4 (29%) 2 (14%) 7
EFV 16 12 (75%) 3 (19%) 1 (6%) -
FTC (1.6) 8 6 (75%) 2 (25%) 0 (-) -
LPV 16 11 (69%) 4 (25%) 1 (6%) -
NVP 5 2 (40%) 1 (20%) 2 (40%) 2,7
RGV 10 7 (70%) 0 (-) 3 (30%) 7
RTV 15 7 (47%) 5 (33%) 3 (20%) 9
TFV 10 8 (80%) 0 (-) 2 (20%) 7
Total 105 66 (63%) 24 (23%) 15 (14%) -

Only if CPL consistently >±10 for two samples.

By design NVP not tested in duplicate for lipemia, thus only 1 value >±10.

%PD = ([lipemic value − control value]/control value) ×100

ARV: Antiretroviral; ATV: Atazanavir; CPL: Clinical pharmacology laboratory; DRV: Darunavir; EFV: Efaviren; FTC: Emtricitabine; LPV: Lopinavir; N: Number; NVP: Nevirapine; RGV: Raltegravir; RTV: Ritonavir; TFV: Tenofovir.