I don't know about the association with abdominal pain.
Could it be an artefact? Have you or your clinicians changed patterns of requesting so that you are measuring plasma phosphate where you wouldn't have in the past?
Sorting out the cause of low plasma phosphate for patients in primary care is now quite a common problem for our GPs and us. It wasn't in the past. After discussing alcohol, diabetes mellitus and refeeding we still often don't find a reason. We're modifying the computerised requesting system so that we don't identify so many in the future.
Jonathan
On 26 Feb 2013, at 13:32, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> At the moment we are seeing an increased number of patients presenting with abdominal pain with low PO4 results. This morning I have 2 young male patients one with PO4 0.12 the other 0.3 mmol/L.
> Is this a local phenomenon?
> David
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