According to the New York Times, if you’ve had your Vitamin D levels checked by Quest Diagnostics over the last two years, chances are your reading was inaccurately high, meaning you may in fact be deficient even if the results came out adequate.
According to Andrew Pollack of the Times:
The company, Quest Diagnostics, has already sent letters to thousands of doctors listing the patients who might have received “questionable” test results and is offering free retests. The company said it had fixed the problems.
The biggest concern right now is to accurately find patients who have had an erroneously high result. These folks are currently not taking vitamin D supplements when they should be. According to Pollack’s report, the Quest test results have typically been too high, although not in all cases. …read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been reading a lot lately about vitamin D. It all started with a long and informative ongoing chat on my celiac forum support group. I thought I’d share some of what I’ve learned through the group and also my own research in the hopes that it could be a bit beneficial for folks implementing a dairy free or low dairy diet for their child’s neurological, immunological, or digestive disorders. 
