What is it about?
SENIORLAB (www.seniorlabor.ch) wants to explore lab test reference intervals ("normal values") in the elderly and finds low vitamin D levels in people > 60 years of age
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Why is it important?
With long and less sunny winters in our latitude (Switzerland) lack of vitamin D fosters other diseases than the textbook entry of osteoporosis, among others: autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases and, according to Michael F Holick, a great name in the field, muscle weakness
Perspectives
Screening for vitamin D sufficiency forms part of routine check ups at doctors office
Professor Urs Ernest Nydegger
University of Bern
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This page is a summary of: Serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D and immunoglobulins in an older Swiss cohort: results of the Senior Labor Study, BMC Medicine, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-11-176.
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