Agreement of blood spot card measurements of vitamin D levels with serum, whole blood specimen types and a dietary recall instrument.

Agreement of blood spot card measurements of vitamin D levels with serum, whole blood specimen types and a dietary recall instrument.

The ability to measure 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) levels from blood spot cards can simplify sample collection versus samples obtained by venipuncture, particularly in populations in whom it is difficult to draw blood. We sought to validate the use of blood spot samples for the measurement of 25OHD...

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Main Authors: Emma K Larkin, Tebeb Gebretsadik, Nathan Koestner, Mark S Newman, Zhouwen Liu, Kecia N Carroll, Patricia Minton, Kim Woodward, Tina V Hartert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3031596?pdf=render

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