Two new automated methods for serum triglyceride analysis are described and compared with each other and with an established chemical method. They are a chemical method requiring no glycerol blank correction and a commercially available fully enzymatic method requiring no prior lipid extraction. Both methods had higher quality control precision and faster sampling rates than the established method. Comparison of duplicate analyses of a random series of serum samples by all three methods gave a closer correlation between the new methods than between either and the conventional method.
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