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Ligand binding assay-related underestimation of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in pregnant women exaggerates the prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency

  • Li Zhang , Qichen Long , Jiangtao Zhang , Jie Zeng , Tianjiao Zhang EMAIL logo and Chuanbao Zhang ORCID logo EMAIL logo

Corresponding authors: Chuanbao Zhang and Tianjiao Zhang, National Center for Clinical Laboratories, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing Hospital/National Center of Gerontology, Beijing Engineering Research Center of Laboratory Medicine, Beijing, P.R. China, Phone: +86 010-58115059, Fax: +86 010-65132968, E-mail: ,
Li Zhang and Qichen Long contributed equally to this work.

Funding source: Beijing Gold-Bridge Project

Award Identifier / Grant number: ZZ22025

Acknowledgments

We appreciate the technical support provided by Beijing Harmony Health Medical Diagnostics Co., LTD (China) and the manufacturers (Roche, DiaSorin, Mindray and Siemens) during the study.

  1. Research funding: This study was supported by grants from Beijing Gold-Bridge Project (Grant Number: ZZ22025).

  2. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.

  4. Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.

  5. Ethics approval: Serum samples were collected from the leftovers of patient samples at the clinical laboratory of Beijing Hospital, and this study had been reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of Beijing Hospital.

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Received: 2022-09-11
Accepted: 2022-09-29
Published Online: 2022-10-26
Published in Print: 2023-01-27

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