Table 3.
Concordance between the reference ranges of the two methods.
| All patients (n = 91) | Ion exchange chromatography |
Cohen's kappa | p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tHCY < lower limit | tHCY within reference range | tHCY > upper limit | ||||
| Immunoassay | tHCY < lower limit | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.565 | <0.001 |
| tHCY within reference range | 2 | 66 | 4 | |||
| tHCY > upper limit | 0 | 7 | 12 | |||
tHCY: total homocysteine.