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Re:Low vitamin D linked to heart disease, death by jerf on Sunday November 27, 2011 @09:08PM (#3284123)
"Most people are deficient in a number of areas, and you can get screened for them all at once."

May I double-click on that? What do you mean? Who do you go to, and what exactly do you say to them? Which areas are you referring to?

Re:Low vitamin D linked to heart disease, death by psykotic on Sunday November 27, 2011 @09:59PM (#3284253)
Talk to your doctor. They can take a blood test and send it off to analysis. It can be somewhat expensive. When I said "all at once" I didn't mean that a simple biochemical test can reveal all deficiencies, obviously, but that a single blood test can be sent off to have many different tests done. I'm not yet sure exactly how it works in the US, sorry.

The kind of deficiencies I had in mind would be vitamin (e.g. D, K), mineral (e.g. iron, calcium) and electolytic (e.g. magnesium, potassium).