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Abstract

Background

Serum triglyceride concentrations are measured as total glycerides content in many Western countries. In Japan, glycerol-blanked triglycerides (TG-GB) are measured to identify postprandial hypertriglyceridaemia and to minimize the influence of glycerol formulation on serum triglyceride values. However, TG-GB measurements have not been standardized. Therefore, we developed an efficient quantification system for total glycerides and free glycerol that allows the calculation of TG-GB concentrations.

Methods

We measured total glycerides and free glycerol in human serum by using gas chromatography-isotope dilution mass spectrometry and compared its performance to the reference method of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Results

Our practical method of total glycerides and free glycerol quantification achieved excellent precision for both within-run and among-run coefficients of variation (<1.5% and <2.7%, respectively), with an average recovery of 99.8% for free glycerol. However, we noted an average %bias of –0.26% for total glycerides and –3.15% for free glycerol between our TG-GB method and the CDC reference method.

Conclusions

This practical method of total glycerides and free glycerol quantification enables traceability assessment of TG-GB measurements. Differences between the output values of TG-GB and the CDC reference method might result from the differences in free glycerol values.

Keywords

Serum triglycerides free glycerol standardization gas chromatography-isotope dilution mass spectrometry

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A method for measuring glycerol-blanked triglyceride concentrations by using gas chromatography-isotope dilution mass spectrometry