Table 5.

Values of zinc concentration expressed in different ways and in different age groups

Age	Gender	Cutoff (µg/mL)	Mean±SD (µg/mL)	Reference range (µg/mL)	Total population (µg/mL)	Reference
Birth–13 years	Male and Female			0.42–1.40		Brown et al. (15)
3–9 years	Male and Female		0.83±0.003			Hotz et al. (4)
3–18 years	Male		1.14±0.35		1.14±0.36	Ghasemi et al. (29)
	Female		1.12±0.37
7–10 years	Male		0.88±0.15 (7–8 years)			Lin et al. (14)
	Female		0.93±0.16 (9–10 years)
>10 years	Male	0.74				Hess et al. (12)
	Female	0.70