{"id":933,"date":"2007-04-27T17:15:31","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T16:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/04\/27\/dont-look-at-serum-values-alone\/"},"modified":"2007-04-29T09:19:51","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T08:19:51","slug":"dont-look-at-serum-values-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/04\/dont-look-at-serum-values-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Dont look at serum values alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an ongoing discussion if 25-OH-D3 serum values can be used to diagnose vitamin D insufficiency. At least for rickets outcome there are now quantitatitive data that allow a comparison of clinical symptoms, radiological findings, cholecalciferol and alkaline phosphatase levels. I have rearranged the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackwell-synergy.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/j.1442-200X.2007.02343.x\">values of a new paper<\/a> into the following figure<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/ohd3.png\" title='' data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img src='https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/ohd3.png' alt='ohd3.png' \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe first figure in the circle gives the spring rate, the second the fall rate where the outcome of the highlighted circles is shown by the arrow.<br \/>\nIt is a vexing picture &#8211; X-ray and AP percentages are quite stable, X-ray high and AP low; symptoms and 25-OH-D3 highly variable. What is the true rickets prevalence?<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackwell-synergy.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/j.1442-200X.2007.02343.x\">scienceblog:doi:10.1111\/j.1442-200X.2007.02343.x<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Addendum<\/h3>\n<p>A single dose of vitamin D may already enhances immunity to mycobacteria: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/ajrccm.atsjournals.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/200701-007OCv1\">scienceblog:doi:10.1164\/rccm.200701-007OC<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 04.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an ongoing discussion if 25-OH-D3 serum values can be used to diagnose vitamin D insufficiency. At least for rickets outcome there are now quantitatitive data that allow a comparison of clinical symptoms, radiological findings, cholecalciferol and alkaline phosphatase levels. I have rearranged the values of a new paper into the following figure &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/04\/dont-look-at-serum-values-alone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dont look at serum values alone<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[994,583,1001,999,998,996,995,997,1000,578],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunshine-vitamin","tag-alkaline_phosphatase_levels","tag-cholecalciferol","tag-clinical_symptoms","tag-immunity","tag-mycobacteria","tag-radiological_findings","tag-rickets","tag-spring_rate","tag-vexing","tag-vitamin_d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}