Jun 02, 2017 | Chemical Pathology
Dr Marita du Plessis
After much consideration about the most appropriate cutoffs to define adequate vitamin D status, Ampath has decided to lower the currently reported cutoffs to those proposed by the Institute of Medicine, and recently endorsed by the National Osteoporosis Foundation of South Africa. According to these guidelines, a 25-hydroxyvitamin D level < 12 ng/ml is regarded as vitamin D deficient, with levels between 12 and 19 regarded as insufficient and levels of 20 ng/ml or above as sufficient.
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