Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To investigate performance of sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) assays of different manufacturers and the effects of assay choice on calculated free testosterone (cFT).Methods: Anonymized serum samples of 113 men and 106 women were randomly selected from excess material from the routine clinical lab at the University Hospital of South Manchester. SHBG levels were measured using three different immunoassays (...

Introduction: According to the free hormone transport hypothesis, only free testosterone (FT) is considered biologically active. Due to low circulating levels and technical challenges of direct FT measurements, calculators have been developed to estimate FT from serum total T, sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) and albumin levels. However, genetic polymorphisms altering SHBG’s binding affinity or capacity might result in calculation imprecisions with consequent incorrect...