Background: Bilirubin is a potent anti-oxidant, and has been shown to be inversely related to diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, and stroke. Few studies have reported the relation of specific foods to serum bilirubin, but none has examined the association between dietary patterns and bilirubin. We investigated the relation between dietary patterns and serum bilirubin in Japanese men an...

  Abstract   Background: Regarding the diagnostic errors of the classic criteria including serum ascites   albumin gradient (SAAG), total protein concentration and the adapted Light et al’s criteria   in distinguishing transudate versus exudates, we evaluated the ascitic fluid to serum   bilirubin ratio as a new criteria in this regard. We also evaluated whether the combination of   bilirubin r...

methods this prospective observational study was conducted in a tertiary level neonatal intensive care unit, princess esra hospital, deccan college of medical sciences, hyderabad, telangana, india. consecutive intramural and extramural neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care unit with the rh-negative mother’s blood group and hyperbilirubinemia were enrolled. neonates born to rh+ve mothers ...

BACKGROUND Elevated serum bilirubin has been associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, serum bilirubin is also related with several potential confounders related to CVD, such as obesity. Mendelian randomization has been proposed as a method to address challenges to validity from confounding and reverse causality. It utilizes genotype to estimate causal relationships...

We followed up 55 patients with proven primary biliary cirrhosis for several years or until death. A graph of the level of serum bilirubin versus time that was constructed for each patient shows an initial period of variable length in which the serum bilirubin level remained constant. This was followed by a period of rapid rise in serum bilirubin which culminated in the patient's death. Wheneve...

Bilirubin, the yellow substance usually responsible for neonatal jaundice, is currently monitored invasively or by observing/measuring skin colour. This paper investigates the feasibility of monitoring serum bilirubin concentration using light absorbance in a similar fashion to pulse oximetry. The light absorbance of bilirubin is shown to be sufficiently different to haemoglobin to in theory al...

Discussions regarding the correlations between elevated white blood cell levels and clinical and pathological stages of acute appendicitis are well known. Recent studies show that a high level of serum bilirubin could emerge as a prognostic marker for gangrenous or perforated stages of acute appendicitis. We studied the correlations between anatomical and pathological stages of acute appendicit...

Bilirubin causes underestimation of serum creatinine in the Jaffé alkaline picrate assay. We report an approach for preventing bilirubin interference by pretreating serum samples with peroxidase and H2O2. The dissociation of bilirubin from albumin and its subsequent oxidation markedly reduces the bilirubin interference and enables accurate determination of creatinine concentrations by the Jaffé...

BACKGROUND/AIMS We evaluated whether serum bilirubin levels can predict the development of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). METHODS This was a retrospective observational longitudinal study of patients presenting at the Pusan National University Hospital. A total of 349 patients with T2DM and preserved kidney function (estimated glomerular filtrat...

A stable stock solution of bilirubin in chloroform may be used to standardize quantitative determination of bilirubin in serum as “azobilirubin.” The molar absorptivity of azobilirubin (560 mj, 1 cm.) is 70,300 ± 280 (mean ± I S.D.) when determined from chloroform-methanol standards treated with a modified van den Bergh reagent in the Malloy and Evelyn procedure for total bilirubin. The absorpt...