A lipase test measures the level of lipase in your blood. Lipase helps your body digest fats. It's a type of digestive enzyme. An enzyme is a protein that speeds up certain chemical reactions in your body. Most of your lipase is made in your pancreas, an organ located behind the lower part of your stomach.
Source: MedlinePlus, U.S. National Library of Medicine
Normal range
- Normal
- 10–140 U/L (varies by lab) ABIM 10–140 · Mayo 13–60 U/L
These labs do not agree: the published adult ranges differ by up to 2.3×, so the same result can read as normal at one lab and be flagged at another — ABIM 10–140 · Mayo 13–60 U/L. Both are real published values, shown as each lab states them.
Ranges from American Board of Internal Medicine (Laboratory Test Reference Ranges), Mayo Clinic Laboratories (Test Catalog).
All 2 source ranges
What an abnormal result can be associated with
- A high result
- Increased circulating lipoprotein lipase concentration
- A low result
- Decreased circulating lipoprotein lipase concentration
Associations from LOINC2HPO (Human Phenotype Ontology). This is reference information, not a diagnosis — only a clinician can interpret your result in context.
Details
- Sample
- Serum or plasma · LOINC
- Collection
- Serum gel tube · 0.5 mL · Mayo Clinic Laboratories (Test Catalog)
- Listed under
- Pancreatic Diseases · Pancreatitis
- Code
- LOINC 3040-3 · U/L
- Also known as
- Steapsin, Pancreatic lipase, Tributyrinase, LPS, Tributyrase