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

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).