20 percent change in vitamin D levels of critically ill during a 24 hour period

Do random estimations of vitamin D3 and parathyroid hormone reflect the 24-h profile in the critically ill?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volume 38, Number 1, 177-179, DOI: 10.1007/s00134-011-2415-x

Correspondence

Bala Venkatesh, Ben Davidson, Katherine Robinson, Ranald Pascoe, Charles Appleton and Mark Jones

These were people expected to be in the ICU for more than 24 hours.

Author feels that a single vitamin D test is not appropriate.

Note: 50 nmol = 20 ng; 100 nmol = 40 ng

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