Alkaline Phosphatase: What Affects The Test
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What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
- Taking medicines that may damage the liver, such as some antibiotics, birth control pills, long-term aspirin use, and oral diabetes medicines.
- Being pregnant. Women in the third trimester of pregnancy have high ALP levels because the placenta makes ALP.
- Going through menopause. Postmenopausal women may have higher ALP levels than women who still have menstrual cycles.
- Your age. Children normally have much higher ALP levels than adults because rapid bone growth is normal in children and bones make ALP.
- Using alcohol.
| Last updated: | July 28, 2008 |
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| Author: | Caroline Rea, RN, BS, MS |
| Reviewed By: | Caroline S. Rhoads, MD - Internal Medicine, Alan C. Dalkin, MD - Endocrinology |
| Editors: | Maria Essig, Tracy Landauer |
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