vit D

[Guest guest]

Just read this thought I would pass it on.

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Large Lab Admits Problems With Vitamin D Tests

Quest Diagnostics, the largest provider of medical laboratory tests in the

United States,

says it has fixed a problem that led to higher vitamin D readings for about 7%

of patients

from 2007 to 2008, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

The Madison, N.J., lab said it noticed an " upward trend " in the vitamin D levels

being

registered on some of its tests during the summer, then offered free tests for

patients

whose results were called into question, according to s, the

company's vice

president for communications. Blood tests to check vitamin D levels are on the

rise,

because research has shown a possible link between too little " sunshine vitamin "

and a

higher risk for cancer and heart disease.

Quest's chief medical official, Dr. Wael Salameh, told AP that he doubted

patients would

have suffered any harm. People with serious vitamin D deficiency, he said, often

exhibit

physical symptoms such as fractures that doctors would have noticed. " A good

doctor

would question the test, " Salameh added. " For the few vulnerable patients, other

indicators would have flagged the situation to their physician. "

Quest said the cause of the problem proved to be how some of the company's

testing

chemicals were mixed. But the company is using a new testing technology, AP

reported,

which critics say tends to produce higher vitamin D readings.

[Guest guest]

Vicki

When I started to read the article I " thought " the Vit. D problem that

Quest was having would be " getting the results to the doctor " !

Interesting article. Also interesting that they thought...if there was

a real vitamin D problem, the doctor would be noticing things like

broken bones! geeze..just bones degenerating to the point of easily

fracturing...not tooooo big of a deal. (pissed me off!...grrrrr)

Hugs

Jo