Unfortunately access to this article is restricted, but one can glean from the title that this vitamin D deficiency pandemic is of our own making as we are not using the appropriate reference range hence making more than 50% of any population deficient even in sunny regions. Using higher reference range for potential benefits in prevention of a variety of diseases has no sound evidence base behind it. Using public health measures in order to boost natural vitamin D status should be encouraged and even vitamin D food fortification could be employed to improve vitamin D status of the population. Now, can we stop measuring/remeasuring vitamin D, at its current industrial scale, and stop dishing out vitamin D prescriptions please. I am astonished at the astronomical rise in the number of vitamin D requests at an extortionate cost to the lab. This is one area that evidence based practice is urgently required and could result in great savings to be used more appropriately somewhere else.

Could clinical biochemists rise to the challenge and discourage blanket sunshine vitamin D testing to all sundry.

 

Regards

 

Mohammad

 

 

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