Mercury/Creatinine Ratio details
What Mercury/Creatinine Ratio shows
This value is calculated by dividing the mercury concentration in a random urine sample by its creatinine concentration. Creatinine is passed into urine at a fairly steady rate, so adjusting for it helps correct for how concentrated or dilute your sample was. Urine mercury mainly reflects exposure to elemental mercury vapour and inorganic mercury, such as from some workplaces, broken mercury-containing devices or certain imported skin products, rather than methylmercury from fish, which is better assessed in blood. A higher ratio points to greater recent or ongoing exposure. The result is interpreted alongside your exposure history, and very dilute or concentrated samples can still affect it.
Tests that include Mercury/Creatinine Ratio
This panel evaluates and monitors exposure to heavy metals and detoxification status.
- Arsenic/Creatinine Ratio A ratio of arsenic to creatinine in a single urine sample, used to look for recent arsenic exposure while correcting for how dilute your urine is.
- Creatinine, Random Measures creatinine in a random urine sample, mainly used as a reference to adjust other urine results for how concentrated or dilute the sample is.
- Lead/Creatinine Ratio Lead in a random urine sample expressed relative to creatinine, which corrects for urine concentration, used to look at lead excretion and possible exposure.
- Mercury/Creatinine Ratio A random urine mercury result adjusted for creatinine, used to assess exposure mainly to elemental and inorganic mercury while correcting for urine dilution.
This panel evaluates and monitors exposure to heavy metals and detoxification status.
- Arsenic/Creatinine Ratio A ratio of arsenic to creatinine in a single urine sample, used to look for recent arsenic exposure while correcting for how dilute your urine is.
- Creatinine, Random Measures creatinine in a random urine sample, mainly used as a reference to adjust other urine results for how concentrated or dilute the sample is.
- Lead/Creatinine Ratio Lead in a random urine sample expressed relative to creatinine, which corrects for urine concentration, used to look at lead excretion and possible exposure.
- Mercury/Creatinine Ratio A random urine mercury result adjusted for creatinine, used to assess exposure mainly to elemental and inorganic mercury while correcting for urine dilution.
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