Hi Helen,
This should be easy to find out, dilute pooled serum with varying amount of beetroot juice and measure all biochemical tests performed in your lab before and after dilution.
Some how, I think it is not as simple as this.
Mohammad
Dr. M A Al-Jubouri, MB ChB, MSc, EurClinChem, FRCP Edin, FRCPath
Consultant Chemical Pathologist
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On Fri, 29/8/14, Helen Berry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Subject: Beetroot Juice
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Friday, 29 August, 2014, 15:46
I received a query about whether
giving patients oral nitrate supplementation (beetroot
juice) would interfere with any biochemistry tests.
One of our clinicians is performing a study and the ethics
committee thought they should include a warning to the GP
that this might alter the result of biochemical tests.
However they could not be specific about which tests.
Does anyone know if beetroot juice interferes with the
results of any common biochemistry tests?
Thanks in advance for any help
Helen
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