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Accurate insulin concentration assessment is critical in diagnosing and managing these diseases.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Hypothesis\/Objectives<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To determine the effect of time, temperature, and collection tube type on insulin concentrations in horses at risk of ID.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Animals<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Eight adult horses with body condition score\u2009&amp;gt;6\/9.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this prospective study, subjects underwent an infeed oral glucose test 2 hours before blood collection. Blood samples were divided into ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, heparinized, or serum tubes and stored at 4 or 20\u00b0C. Tubes were centrifuged and analyzed for insulin by a chemiluminescent assay over 8\u2009days. Changes in insulin concentrations were compared with a linear mixed effects model.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>An overall effect of time, tube type and temperature was identified (P = .01, P = 0.001, and P = 0.001, respectively). Serum and heparinized samples had similar concentrations for 3\u2009days at 20\u00b0C and 8\u2009days at 4\u00b0C; however, after 3\u2009days at 20\u00b0C, heparinized samples had significantly higher insulin concentrations (P = .004, P = .03, and P = .03 on consecutive days). Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid samples had significantly lower insulin concentrations regardless of time and temperature (P = .001 for all comparisons).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions and Clinical Importance<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>These results suggest an ideal protocol to determine insulin concentrations involves using serum or heparinized samples with analysis occurring within 3\u2009days at 20\u00b0C or 8\u2009days at 4\u00b0C.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/jvim.15629","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,16]],"date-time":"2019-10-16T17:58:02Z","timestamp":1571248682000},"page":"2746-2751","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Immunoreactive insulin stability in horses at risk of insulin 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