RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Plasma binding capacity for 25-hydroxy-vitamin D in the elderly.
JF Journal of Clinical Pathology
JO J Clin Pathol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists
SP 240
OP 243
DO 10.1136/jcp.32.3.240
VO 32
IS 3
A1 MacLennan, W J
A1 Hamilton, J C
YR 1979
UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/32/3/240.abstract
AB Plasma 25-hydroxy-vitamin D (25-OHD) concentrations and 25-OHD binding capacities were measured in 14 elderly patients and in 14 young controls. Both 25-OHD concentrations and 25-OHD binding capacities were reduced in the elderly. In neither group, however, was there a significant correlation between 25-OHD binding capacities and 25-OHD concentrations. Thus, although 25-OHD binding capacities are reduced in sick old people this does not account for the low 25-OHD concentrations often found in this group.