The first mandatory analysis that a woman takes when she gets pregnant is to determine the level of hCG. What is this hormone? What are its parameters, and what levels should cause concern?
Dr. Helena
Why do you need hCG diagnostics?
To determine the onset of pregnancy, a woman takes a blood test for total hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin). It helps monitor the course of pregnancy, diagnosing the level of beta-hCG. It is produced by the outer shell of the embryo and is normally determined in the blood of a woman 6–8 days after fertilization and in the urine 1–2 days later. The standard indicators of this hormone are as follows:
Pregnant women
- Short term—10–50 IU/ml
- 4 weeks—40–6000 IU/ml
- 7—11 weeks—6,000–180,000 IU/ml (maximum)
- 26—43 weeks—1 800–59 000 IU/ml.
Men and non-pregnant women
0—5 mU/ml
Indicators in the range of 5–25 IU / ml don’t specify whether or not there is a pregnancy, so several days after the first diagnosis it is necessary to undergo a second diagn...
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