Authors' reply: ‘Mean platelet volume could be a promising biomarker to monitor dietary compliance in celiac disease'

  • Tugrul Purnak
  • Yavuz Beyazit
  • Cumali Efe
  • Ersan Ozaslan
  • Osman Yuksel
  • Emin Altiparmak

Abstract

We thank Dr Varol for his interest in our article (1). First of all, we agree with Dr Varol regarding the methodological concern of mean platelet volume (MPV) assessments (2). Blood samples must be studied within 2 hours, as in our study, to avoid falsely elevated results. Also, when commenting MPV values in different studies, one must be cautious about the analyzer device. Different analyzer devices might produce different MPV results, and this fact should be taken into account before generalization of the results. Therefore, we tried to use the same analyzer device (Beckman Coulter analyzer) as in our previous studies (3,4).

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Published
2013-07-10
How to Cite
Purnak T., Beyazit Y., Efe C., Ozaslan E., Yuksel O., & Altiparmak E. (2013). Authors’ reply: ‘Mean platelet volume could be a promising biomarker to monitor dietary compliance in celiac disease’. Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 118(3). https://doi.org/10.3109/03009734.2013.806617
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Letters to the Editor