Vitamin D testing: advantages and limits of the current assays

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition - Tập 74 Số 2 - Trang 231-247 - 2020
Barbara Altieri1, Étienne Cavalier2, Harjit Pal Bhattoa3, Faustino R. Pérez‐López4, María T. López‐Baena4, Gonzalo R. Pérez‐Roncero4, Peter Chedraui5, Cédric Annweiler6,7,8,9, Silvia Della Casa10, Sieglinde Zelzer11, Markus Herrmann11, Antongiulio Faggiano12, Annamaria Colao13, Michael F. Holick14
1Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
2Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Liège, CHU de Liège, Liège, Belgium
3Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
4Instituto de Investigaciones Sanitarias de Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain
5Instituto de Investigación e Innovación en Salud Integral, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador
6Angers University Memory Clinic
7Department of Geriatric Medicine, Angers University Hospital
8Research Center on Autonomy and Longevity
9UPRES EA 4638, University of Angers, Angers, France
10Department of Endocrinology, Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
11Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
12Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
13Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Federico II University, Naples, Italy
14Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

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