A quantitative science that is concerned with the measurement of biologically important analytes in body fluids. Methods used to measure the analytes are designed to provide accurate assessment of their concentrations. Clinical chemistry results are then compared to reference intervals to provide diagnostic and clinical meaning to the value
Common analytes in a clinical chemistry lab:
- Ions, salts and minerals
- Metabolites
- Therapeutic drugs
- Transport proteins
- Enzymes
- Lipoproteins
- Markers (cardiac, diabetics, cancer)
- Toxicology
- Drugs of abuse
