CLINICAL CHEMISTRY

1. Chief plasma cation whose main function is b) Apo B

maintaining osmotic pressure:
c) Apo B100
a) Chloride
d) APO E
b) Calcium
c) Sodium 5. Which of the following enzymes catalyzes the
conversion of starch to glucose and maltose?
d) Potassium
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2. A Gaussian distribution is usually a) Lipase

a) Bell-shaped b) Amylase
b) Rectangular c) ALT
c) Uniform d) GGT

d) Skewed 6. How should a laboratory verify the reference range

it uses for a particular test?
3. Which of the following would be most adversely a) Call another laboratory
affected by a nonfasting sample? Elsevier
b) Use the numbers from a textbook
a) HDL
c) Test samples from healthy people
b) LDL
d) Look on a medical internet site
c) Cholesterol
d) Triglycerides Note:

4. Which of the following apoproteins is inversely Establish: ___samples

related to risk for coronary heart disease and is a
Verify: ___ samples
surrogate marker for HDL? Elsevier
7. Which test is the most specific for myocardial
a) Apo A-I infarction?

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a) LDH 10. Hypernatremia:
b) CK a) 140 mmol/L

c) Troponin b) 135 mmol/L

d) Myoglobin c) *Vomiting
Note: “My TROPiCAL” d) (?)

 Myoglobin 11. Which of the following sets of values for repeat

 Toponin analyses of a QC sample (target value of 50) reflects the
 CK best precision?
 AST
a) 50, 51, 52
 LDH
b) 50, 52, 56
8. A hormone that is also an enzyme
c) 48, 50, 52
a) Renin
d) 44, 50, 53
b) Vasopressin
c) TSH
12. Which of the following would NOT be a typical
d) Cortisol methodology for a clinical chemistry test?
a) Immunoturbidimetry
9.Common for multiple myeloma and Waldenstrom
b) Microscopy
macroglobulinemia:
c) EMIT®
a) increased IgG
d) ISE
b) decreased IgG
c) increased IgM
13. At what serum concentration would glucose begin to
d) decreased IgM appear in the urine? Elsevier

a) 50 mg/dL

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b) 75 mg/dL 16. Used to calibrate pH meter:
c) 100 mg/ a) Distilled water

d) 170 mg/dL b) Tap water

14. Review: c) Buffers
REAGENT BLANK- used with techniques such as d) (?)
spectrophotometry to ZERO THE INSTRUMENT
BEFORE measuring test samples and other blanks
SAMPLE BLANK- refers to using the sample for zeroing
an instrument DURING a test procedure

15.

By: Aiko M. Billones, RMT

Credits to: gracemed