Biological variation of vitamins in blood of healthy individuals

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2145-2150

  Talwar, Dinesh K ^a,b   Azharuddin, Mohammed K ^a   Williamson, Cathy ^a   Teoh, Yee Ping ^a   McMillan, Donald C ^a   O'Reilly, Denis St J ^a  

^a GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Clinical Biochemistry Service   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CAROTENOID; PYRIDOXINE; RETINOL; RIBOFLAVIN; THIAMINE; VITAMIN; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUE; TECHNIQUE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; VITAMINS;

EID: 27444446450     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2005.056374     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Bates CJ. Vitamin analysis. Ann Clin Biochem 1997;34:599-626.
2. Fidanza F, ed. Vitamin nutriture methodology. Nutritional status assessment: a manual for population studies. London: Chapman and Hall, 1991:185-330.
3. Fell GS, Talwar D. Assessment of status. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care 1998;1:491-7.
4. Shultz EK. Analytical goals and clinical interpretation of laboratory procedures. In: Burtis CA, Ashwood ER, eds. Teitz textbook of clinical chemistry, 2nd ed. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1994:485-525.
5. Fraser CG, Kallner A, Kenny D, Hyltoft Petersen P. Introduction: strategies to set global analytical quality specifications in laboratory medicine. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 1999;59:475-8.
6. Fraser CG, Hyltoft Petersen P. Analytical performance characteristics should be judged against objective quality specifications. Clin Chem 1999;45:321-3.
7. Hyltoft Petersen P, Fraser CG, Jorgensen L, Brandslund I, Stahl M, Gowans E, et al. Combination of analytical quality specifications based on biological within- and between-subject variation. Ann Clin Biochem 2002;39:543-50.
8. Maes M, Weeckx S, Wauters A, Neels H, Scharpe S, Verkerk R, et al. Biological variability in serum vitamin E concentrations: relation to serum lipids. Clin Chem 1996;42:1824-31.
9. Gillespie C, Ballew C, Bowman B, Donehoo R, Serdula M. Intraindividual variation in serum retinol among participants in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994. Am J Clin Nutr 2004;79:625-32.
10. Lacher D, Hughes J, Carroll M. Estimate of biological variation of laboratory analytes based on the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Clin Chem 2005;51:450-2.
11. Berggren Soderlund M, Sjoberg A, Svard G, Fex G, Nillson-Ehle P. Biological variation of retinoids in man. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 2002;62:511-20.
12. Tangney CC, Shekelle RB, Raynor W, Gale M, Betz EP. Intra- and Interindividual variation in measurements of β-carotene, retinol, and tocopherols in diet and plasma. Am J Clin Nutr 1987;45:764-79.
13. Talwar D, Ha TK, Cooney J, Brownlee C, O'Reilly DS. A routine method for the simultaneous measurement of retinol, α-tocopherol, and five carotenoids in human plasma by reverse phase HPLC. Clin Chim Acta 1998;270:85-100.
14. Davidson KW, Sadowski JA. Determination of vitamin K compounds in plasma or serum by high-performance liquid chromatography using postcolumn chemical reduction and fluorimetric detection. Methods Enzymol 1997;282:408-21.
15. Talwar D, Davidson H, Cooney J, St J O'Reilly D. Vitamin B(1) status assessed by direct measurement of thiamin pyrophosphate in erythrocytes or whole blood by HPLC: comparison with erythrocyte transketolase activation assay. Clin Chem 2000;46:704-10.
16. Talwar D, Quasim T, McMillan DC, Kinsella J, Williamson C, St J O'Reilly D. Optimisation and validation of a sensitive high-performance liquid chromatography assay for routine measurement of pyridoxal 5-phosphate in human plasma and red cells using pre-column semicarbazide derivatisation. J Chromatogr B Biomed Sci Appl 2003;792:333-43.
17. 2 vitamer flavin adenine dinucleotide in whole blood by high-performance liquid chromatography with fluorometric detection. J Chromatogr 1982;228:311-6.
18. Margolis S, Davis T. Stabilization of ascorbic acid in human plasma, and its liquid-chromatographic measurement. Clin Chem 1988;34:2217-23.
19. Lipid Research Clinics Program manual of laboratory operations. DHEW Publications No. 1. NIH 75-628. Washington DC: US Department of Health and Human Services, 1975.
20. Fraser CG, Harris EK. Generation and application of data on biological variation in clinical chemistry. Crit Rev Clin Lab Sci 1989;27:409-37.
21. Fraser CG, Hyltoft Petersen P. Quality goals in external quality assessment are best based on biology. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 1993;53(Suppl 212):8-9.
22. Harris EK. Effects of intra- and interindividual variation on the appropriate use of normal intervals. Clin Chem 1974;20:1535-42.
23. Fraser CG. Inherent biological variation and reference values. Clin Chem Lab Med 2004;42:758-64.
24. Traber MG, Jialal I. Measurement of lipid soluble vitamins-further adjustment needed? Lancet 2000;355:2013-4.
25. Thurnam DI, Davis JA, Crump BJ, Situnayake RD, Davis M. The use of different lipids to express serum tocopherol:lipid ratios for the measurement of vitamin E status. Ann Clin Biochem 1986;23:514-20.
26. Sadowski JA, Hood SJ, Dallal GE, Carry P. Phylloquinone in plasma from elderly and young adults: factors influencing its concentration. Am J Clin Nutr 1989;50:100-8.
27. Fraser CG. Biological variation in clinical chemistry, an update: collected data, 1988-1991. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1992;116:916-23.
28. Sebastian-Gimbaro MA. Intra- and inter-individual biological variability data bank. Eur J Clin Chem Biochem 1997;35:845-52.
29. Ricos C, Garcia-Lariol J-V, Alvarez V, Caval F, Domenechl M, Hernandez A, et al. Biological variation database, and quality specifications for imprecision, bias and total error (desirable and minimum). The 2004 update. Westgard QC www.westgard.com/guest26.htm (accessed August 2005).
30. Gray A, McMillan DC, Wilson C, Williamson C, O'Reilly DS, Talwar D. The relationship between plasma and red cell concentrations of vitamins thiamine diphosphate, flavin adenine dinucleotide and pyridoxal 5-phosphate following elective knee arthroplasty. Clin Nutr 2004;23:1080-3.
31. Talwar D, Quasim T, McMillan DC, Kinsella J, Williamson C, O'Reilly D St J. Pyridoxal phosphate decreases in plasma but not erythrocytes during systemic inflammatory response. Clin Chem 2003;49:515-8.
32. Galloway P, McMillan DC, Sattar N. Effect of the inflammatory response on trace element and vitamin status. Ann Clin Biochem 2000;37:289-97.
33. Vermaak WJ, Ubbink JB, Barnard HC, Potgieter GM, van Jaarsveld H, Groenewald AJ. Vitamin B-6 nutrition status and cigarette smoking. Am J Clin Nutr 1990;51:1058-61.