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Can serum isotope levels accurately measure intestinal calcium absorption compared to gold-standard methods?
BACKGROUND: Low fractional calcium absorption (FCA) contributes to osteoporosis but is not measured clinically, as the gold-standard method requires administration of two calcium tracers and a subsequent 24-h urine collection. We evaluated alternate methods to measure FCA, compared to the gold stand...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4520086/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26227019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12937-015-0065-5 |
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author | Vreede, Andrew P. Jones, Andrea N. Hansen, Karen E. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Low fractional calcium absorption (FCA) contributes to osteoporosis but is not measured clinically, as the gold-standard method requires administration of two calcium tracers and a subsequent 24-h urine collection. We evaluated alternate methods to measure FCA, compared to the gold standard method. METHODS: We administered two stable calcium isotope tracers (~8 mg oral (44)Ca and ~3 mg intravenous (42)Ca) with breakfast to 20 fasting post-menopausal women (Cohort 1) 59 ± 7 years old with vitamin D insufficiency. We measured subsequent calcium isotope concentrations in 24-h urine samples and serum collected 1, 3 and 5 h post tracer administration during an inpatient research stay. We assessed the candidate serum estimates in a second cohort of 9 women with similar characteristics. Methods of measuring FCA were compared using correlation coefficients and Bland-Altman tests. RESULTS: FCA estimated from a 3-h serum sample correlated highest with the levels from the 24-h urine collection (ρ 0.78, p < 0.001), but explained only 58 % of the variance in FCA. The total variance explained by 3-h estimates improved to 61 % with incorporation of glomerular filtration rate (GFR). FCA estimates from the 3-h serum measurement were assessed in a second group of nine women (Cohort 2) 60 ± 7 years old. In this cohort, however, FCA estimated by 3-h serum isotope levels did not correlate with gold-standard FCA measurements, whether determined with (ρ 0.02, p = 0.97) or without GFR values (ρ 0.03, p = 0.93). By contrast, FCA in Cohort 2 correlated best with 5-h serum isotope levels (ρ 0.75, p = 0.02). CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that serum isotope levels correlate with true fractional calcium absorption, but do not reliably estimate FCA when analyzed using Bland-Altman tests, compared to gold-standard methods. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov.Identifier: NCT00933244 |
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spelling | pubmed-45200862015-07-31 Can serum isotope levels accurately measure intestinal calcium absorption compared to gold-standard methods? Vreede, Andrew P. Jones, Andrea N. Hansen, Karen E. Nutr J Research BACKGROUND: Low fractional calcium absorption (FCA) contributes to osteoporosis but is not measured clinically, as the gold-standard method requires administration of two calcium tracers and a subsequent 24-h urine collection. We evaluated alternate methods to measure FCA, compared to the gold standard method. METHODS: We administered two stable calcium isotope tracers (~8 mg oral (44)Ca and ~3 mg intravenous (42)Ca) with breakfast to 20 fasting post-menopausal women (Cohort 1) 59 ± 7 years old with vitamin D insufficiency. We measured subsequent calcium isotope concentrations in 24-h urine samples and serum collected 1, 3 and 5 h post tracer administration during an inpatient research stay. We assessed the candidate serum estimates in a second cohort of 9 women with similar characteristics. Methods of measuring FCA were compared using correlation coefficients and Bland-Altman tests. RESULTS: FCA estimated from a 3-h serum sample correlated highest with the levels from the 24-h urine collection (ρ 0.78, p < 0.001), but explained only 58 % of the variance in FCA. The total variance explained by 3-h estimates improved to 61 % with incorporation of glomerular filtration rate (GFR). FCA estimates from the 3-h serum measurement were assessed in a second group of nine women (Cohort 2) 60 ± 7 years old. In this cohort, however, FCA estimated by 3-h serum isotope levels did not correlate with gold-standard FCA measurements, whether determined with (ρ 0.02, p = 0.97) or without GFR values (ρ 0.03, p = 0.93). By contrast, FCA in Cohort 2 correlated best with 5-h serum isotope levels (ρ 0.75, p = 0.02). CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that serum isotope levels correlate with true fractional calcium absorption, but do not reliably estimate FCA when analyzed using Bland-Altman tests, compared to gold-standard methods. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov.Identifier: NCT00933244 BioMed Central 2015-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4520086/ /pubmed/26227019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12937-015-0065-5 Text en © Vreede et al. 2015 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Vreede, Andrew P. Jones, Andrea N. Hansen, Karen E. Can serum isotope levels accurately measure intestinal calcium absorption compared to gold-standard methods? |
title | Can serum isotope levels accurately measure intestinal calcium absorption compared to gold-standard methods? |
title_full | Can serum isotope levels accurately measure intestinal calcium absorption compared to gold-standard methods? |
title_fullStr | Can serum isotope levels accurately measure intestinal calcium absorption compared to gold-standard methods? |
title_full_unstemmed | Can serum isotope levels accurately measure intestinal calcium absorption compared to gold-standard methods? |
title_short | Can serum isotope levels accurately measure intestinal calcium absorption compared to gold-standard methods? |
title_sort | can serum isotope levels accurately measure intestinal calcium absorption compared to gold-standard methods? |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4520086/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26227019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12937-015-0065-5 |
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