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Calcium, Total
Total calcium in blood, including protein-bound and free calcium; interpreted with albumin and, when needed, ionised calcium, vitamin D, kidney function and parathyroid status.
What is measured?
The level, concentration or activity of this biomarker measured in the relevant blood sample.
What the result represents?
Aden's range
What a raised or a low result can indicate
How Aden reads it as part of a system?
Aden reads this result alongside albumin, vitamin D, magnesium, kidney function, related nutrient markers and your previous measurements. It is treated as one part of the wider gut picture, not as a diagnosis on its own.
What changes between tests?
Which related markers give it context?
albumin, vitamin D, magnesium, kidney function, related nutrient markers
How to get this tested?
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