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What Does My Blood Test Report Indicate?
Good evening, I have just receive the results of a blood test and observed that SGOT and SGPT values are above the reference values. In specific, SGOT is 40.0 (reference range: 11-38 iu/l) and SGPT is 75.0 (reference range:11-43 iu/l). I am 49 years old, male, in good physical condition. Can stress cause an increase in SGOT and SGPT values? I want also to mention that I haven t taken any medication that may have caused this increase
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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Stress has no effect on liver enzyme levels.
Your numbers aren't worrisome since it's only a mild elevation but that can be from alcohol ingestion or acetaminophen or ibuprofen ingestion.
Were I your doctor, I would just repeat the test in three months since most often the numbers return to their normal ranges
Stress has no effect on liver enzyme levels.
Your numbers aren't worrisome since it's only a mild elevation but that can be from alcohol ingestion or acetaminophen or ibuprofen ingestion.
Were I your doctor, I would just repeat the test in three months since most often the numbers return to their normal ranges
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