Journal article
Pathology consultation on vitamin D testing
American journal of clinical pathology, Vol.136(4), pp.507-514
10/2011
DOI: 10.1309/AJCPB50USETUOQDZ
PMID: 21917672
Abstract
The last decade has seen a substantial increase in clinical interest in vitamin D deficiency and of laboratory testing for vitamin D status. Many clinical laboratories in the United States have seen requests for vitamin D testing increase 100% or more in the last 5 years. The most common laboratory test to assess vitamin D nutritional status is total 25-hydroxyvitamin D serum concentrations. Laboratory professionals are often confronted with challenges related to vitamin D testing, including controversy over optimal and target vitamin D concentrations, variable reference ranges across marketed assays and reference laboratories, lack of standardization of vitamin D assays, and misordering of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D testing. This article presents a common clinical case scenario regarding vitamin D and an up-to-date discussion and review of the literature on vitamin D testing.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Pathology consultation on vitamin D testing
- Creators
- Matthew D Krasowski - Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- American journal of clinical pathology, Vol.136(4), pp.507-514
- Publisher
- England
- DOI
- 10.1309/AJCPB50USETUOQDZ
- PMID
- 21917672
- ISSN
- 0002-9173
- eISSN
- 1943-7722
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/2011
- Academic Unit
- Pathology
- Record Identifier
- 9984047670902771
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