Amilasa pancreática sérica en personas de 23 a 42 años de la ciudad de Cuenca-Ecuador, 2009-2010

Abstract

The objective of this project was to determine the levels of serum pancreatic amylase in people who are between 23 to 42 years old of any sex, high and sex who live in Cuenca Ecuador at least for the two last years with the purpose of establishing values of reference according to our reality.

This descriptive research was done on 1000 people chosen randomly in the urban parishes of the city. From this amount of people 64.7% are women (647).; with an arithmetic mean of tall of 160 cm.; an arithmetic mean of weight of 64 kilograms. They were asked several questions in order to know their current health condition. They were asked also about their medical history which let us chose healthy people.

The blood samples were collected and analyzed under very rigid norms of bio-security at the Clinic Laboratory of the Diagnosis Center of the School of Medicine of the University of Cuenca. A Spectronic Genesys 20, spectrophotometer was used. The reagents were obtained from the chemical store Wienner.

The average value of amylase in male people is 77,8 AU /dL and in female people is 71,9 AU /dL. This gives a total average of 74 ± 0,65 AU/dl. We found a significant direct relationship with the Chi square test between the variables sex amylase: (p=0,000); we doesn`t found a significant direct relationship between; amylase with age: (p=0,069); amylase with high: (p=0,265); amylase with weight : (p=0,311). KEY WORDS: Amylases, reference values, urban population, adult, Cuenca – Ecuador.