Pages tagged with "Tests"
- Vitamin D estimation– possibly use infrared to estimate vitamin D general range
- Vitamin D test costs Obamacare pregnant woman 214 dollars (vs 6 dollars for a bottle)
- Canadians – 37 percent have less than 20 ng of vitamin D (after adjusting test results with standards)
- Vitamin D deficiency can sometimes be inferred by Autofluorescence of skin - 2015
- Big differences (~10 ng) in vitamin D test results, even when using the same type of tester
- Active Vitamin D (Calcitriol) reference ranges, why too high is a problem
- Vitamin D – whom to test and whom to treat
- Vitamin D measurement at home with dried blood spot had a 71 percent successful return rate
- Wrong vitamin D test continues to be ordered - 66 percent of active Vit D tests were not wanted
- Medicare now pays for just one vitamin D test , but 20 CT scans for smokers
- Task force confirms - not much benefit from low Vitamin D supplementation
- Vitamin D measurements vary from the same blood sample
- Percent who are Vitamin D Deficient: 6, 9, or 22 – depends on testing system
- Bone tenderness weakly associated with vitamin D levels
- Cancer patients at high risk of vitamin D deficiency were not tested as often (paradoxically)
- Virtually all vitamin D testing not associated with a symptom, but 10 percent had osteoporosis
- Vitamin D Testers coming soon (low cost and easy)
- Vitamin D testing AND levels are increasing in Australia (NSW)
- Vitamin D tester by Cue: consumables only 4 dollars per vitamin D test – Spring 2015
- No vitamin D test needed before supplementing (typically)