Test category · Laboratory
Vitamins, minerals & nutrition
Iron and its carriers, the B vitamins, fat-soluble vitamins and trace elements: the deficiencies and excesses that show in blood.
Tests with a page
Medical test
Ferritin test
Medical test
Iron studies
Medical test
Vitamin B12 and folate
Medical test
Vitamin D test
Concepts covered by those pages
FerritinSerum ironTotal iron-binding capacity TIBCTransferrinTransferrin saturation TSATSoluble transferrin receptor sTfRIron studiesVitamin B12FolateVitamin D
Also in this category: catalogued concepts
Canonical test concepts of this category that do not yet have their own page. They are listed so that the taxonomy is complete and searchable; a page is written only when it can meet the quality standard.
- Copper (Cu) · also: serum copper Laboratory test
- Zinc (Zn) Laboratory test
- Selenium (Se) Laboratory test
- Vitamin A · also: retinol Laboratory test
- Vitamin E · also: alpha-tocopherol Laboratory test
- Vitamin K status · also: PIVKA-II Laboratory test
- Thiamine · also: vitamin B1 Laboratory test
- Riboflavin · also: vitamin B2 Laboratory test
- Vitamin B6 · also: pyridoxal phosphate Laboratory test
- Vitamin C · also: ascorbic acid Laboratory test
- Manganese (Mn) Laboratory test
- Chromium (Cr) Laboratory test
- Iodine status · also: urinary iodine Laboratory test
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