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The Role of the Laboratory in Assessing Concerns Over Vitamin D Toxicity

Speaker
  • Reinhold Vieth, PhD

    University of Toronto Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, and Department of Nutritional Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Abstract

Recent studies show a large prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency in populations of all ages.  Concerns about excess supplementation and toxicity have emerged as a result.  This presentation explores Vitamin D levels where toxicity or hypercalcemia is a risk.