25 OH Vitamin D (Turbidimetric Method)

Intended use
Biostep Vitamin D reagent is intended for testing and is an important tool for physicians and individuals to determine whether individual is vitamin D deficient or not.
Background
The role of vitamin D in regulating circulating levels of calcium and phosphorus to ensure normal bone mineralization is well known. Emerging evidence correlates insufficient levels of vitamin D to an increased risk of developing non-skeletal pathologies: cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, cancer, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, infectious diseases. The diverse effects of vitamin D are mediated by receptors that regulate more than 200 genes. Besides the receptors present in the intestine and the bone, vitamin D receptors have been identitfied in brain, prostate, breast, colon, immune cells, vascular smooth muscle and cardiomyocytes plus 17 types of cancers and Alzheimer’s and depression