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Lipase
What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
- Medicines, such as anticoagulants, cholinergics, and Reference opiates Opens New Window.
- Diseases such as Reference chronic kidney disease Opens New Window and Reference high cholesterol Opens New Window.
- Being pregnant.
- Having an Reference endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatogram (ERCP) Opens New Window Reference
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