Vitamin D Measurement from Hair

With over a billion people assessed to be affected, Vitamin D insufficiency a hazard factor for depression, cardiovascular defects, inflammation, diabetes, and malignant growth has reached pestilence extents around the world. To cure the impacts of low Vitamin D scientists at Trinity College Dublin and St James Hospital, London have discovered that nutrient D would now be able to be estimated by human hair, making a new way for improved diagnosis.

Vitamin D levels are caught by blood analysis technique at a single time point, conversely, hair, which grows at around 1 centimeter a month, which may reflect vitamin D status more than a while.

Partner Professor Lina Zgaga from Trinity College Dublin stated, their examination demonstrates that vitamin D is being stored constantly in the hair as it develops, a greater amount of it may be saved now and again when vitamin D concentration in the blood is high and less when it’s low. Lina Zgaga additionally included that the doctors may get a proportion of vitamin D status by conducting a test called 25-hydroxy vitamin D blood test by taking the hair sample.

In general, a level of 20 nanograms/millilitre to 50 ng/mL is considered adequate for healthy people and less than 12 ng/mL shows vitamin D deficiency.

Zgaga likewise said that they will research the utilization of hair items, for example, hair color, or any other condition that may influence vitamin D levels in hair, the critical ones being hair shading and thickness.

The scientist expressed it this investigation could prompt an evaluation of vitamin D Levels of the historical population – Elizabethans, Vikings, Celts, Romans, ancient Chinese, Egyptians by applications, for example, hair alongside teeth which is the longest enduring biological materials after death.

The discoveries of the above examination were distributed in Nutrients Journal. However, to demonstrate the definite associations of vitamin D concentration in the blood and in hair, further research must be directed.