Clinical applications for vitamin D assays: what is known and what is wished for.
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Vitamin D is a “hot topic,” with the number of citations in PubMed exceeding 2400 in 2009, a 3-fold increase in 1 year. In the US, the number of requested 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OHD) assays is increasing exponentially. Not all of the published material has validity, however. A panel of experts was invited to address a series of questions pertaining to laboratory methods and clinical applications of available assays for 25-OHD and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25-OHD).
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Clinical chemistry
دوره 57 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011