ArticleThe Journal of nutrition2021
Determination of Vitamin A Total Body Stores in Children from Dried Serum Spots: Application in a Low- and Middle-Income Country Community Setting.
Article in The Journal of nutrition, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03030339 (Vitamin A Status and Risk of Excessive Vitamin A Intake Among Urban Filipino Children Exposed to Multiple Vitamin A Intervention Programs), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Vitamin A Status and Risk of Excessive Vitamin A Intake Among Urban Filipino Children Exposed to Multiple Vitamin A Intervention Programs
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.
- Selected laboratory-based biomarkers for assessing vitamin A deficiency in at-risk individuals.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Use of Population-Based Compartmental Modeling and Retinol Isotope Dilution to Study Vitamin A Kinetics and Total Body Stores among Ghanaian Women of Reproductive Age.Current developments in nutrition · 2024Article
- Use of Compartmental Modeling and Retinol Isotope Dilution to Determine Vitamin A Stores in Young People with Sickle Cell Disease Before and After Vitamin A Supplementation.The Journal of nutrition · 2023Article
- Filipino Children with High Usual Vitamin A Intakes and Exposure to Multiple Sources of Vitamin A Have Elevated Total Body Stores of Vitamin A But Do Not Show Clear Evidence of Vitamin A Toxicity.Current developments in nutrition · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe retinol isotope dilution (RID) method has been used to evaluate vitamin A (VA) status in healthy adults and children in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) and to assess the efficacy of various VA interventions.
objectiveThe study was designed to examine whether dried serum spots (DSS) can be applied to RID when conducting VA total body store (TBS) assessments in community settings.
methodsFour days after an oral dose of 0.4 mg [13C10]retinyl acetate was administered to Filipino children (12-18 mo), a single blood draw was divided to isolate both serum and plasma. Serum (40 μL) was spotted and dried on Whatman 903 cards and shipped at ambient temperature whereas liquid plasma (LP) was frozen at -80°C and shipped on dry ice. The VA tracer to tracee ratio from DSS and LP was quantified by LC-MS/MS. Comparisons between DSS and LP paired samples (n = 72) were made for [13C10]retinol specific activity (SAp) by Pearson's correlation and for VA TBS by Bland-Altman analysis.
resultsThe sum of 3 coextracted DSS were required to consistently detect [13C10]retinol above the LC-MS/MS limit of quantitation (LOQ). [13C10]retinol SAp from DSS was highly correlated with SAp from LP (r = 0.945; P < 0.01). A comparison of methods for TBS determination using Bland-Altman analysis indicated agreement with an intraindividual difference of 24.7 μmol (4.6%). Mean total liver reserve (TLR) values from DSS and LP were 1.7 μmol/g (± 0.6 SD) and 1.6 μmol/g (± 0.6 SD), respectively.
conclusionsVA TBS can be determined from DSS thereby reducing the logistics and cost of maintaining a cold chain by shipping samples at ambient temperature and, thus, making the RID technique more feasible in LMIC community settings. This trial was registered at https://clinicaltrials.gov as NCT03030339.
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