Research Paper Volume 12, Issue 9 pp 8702—8709
A novel method for calculating mean erythrocyte age using erythrocyte creatine
- 1 Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan
- 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Hakuhokai Central Hospital, Hyogo, Japan
- 3 Department of Biomedical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
Received: February 23, 2020 Accepted: April 20, 2020 Published: May 11, 2020
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.103193How to Cite
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Abstract
Estimating the lifespan of erythrocytes is useful for the differential diagnosis of anemia. However, measuring the lifespan of erythrocytes was very difficult; therefore, it was seldom measured. Erythrocyte creatine (EC) decreases reflecting erythrocyte age. We developed a method to obtain mean erythrocyte age (MRBC) from EC.
We reanalyzed the previously published data from 21 patients with hemolytic anemia, which included EC and the half-life of 51Cr.
MRBC and loge EC showed excellent significant linearity (r = −0.9475, p < 0.001), proving that it could be treated as a mono-exponential relationship within the studied range (EC: 1.45 – 11.76 μmol/g Hb). We established an equation to obtain MRBC (days) from EC (μmol/g Hb): MRBC = −22.84loge EC + 65.83.
This equation allowed calculation of MRBC based on EC which has practical applications such as the diagnosis of anemia.