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@dawn16 Both the USPSTF (task force of experts who come together to form screening guidelines for basically all primary care issues) and the Endocrine Society (another task force similar to USPSTF but they only come out with endocrine specific guidelines) recommend against the primary SCREENING...

@dawn16 I never said it's not a hormone???

@earnestq I don't claim to know more than your doctor. But, I would bet the specialists who wrote the guidelines for vitamin D screening (https://academic.oup.com/view-large/97183491) do. "There is no evidence demonstrating benefits of screening for vitamin D deficiency at a population level...

@francolepza No, of course! Super fair question with many answers. Let me start this by mentioning that this is from experience I've had working with and learning from many different doctors from all specialties in both inpatient and outpatient settings. All of this is based on anecdotal...

@tiff_tiff I’ll take a look to see if I can find anything. This information is from lectures and talks I’ve had given to me throughout my courses and while rotating in the hospital. I (embarrassingly) haven’t done a primary lit review myself (besides textbooks for pathophys obviously). I’ll see...

@tiff_tiff Here is an interesting piece about the shitshow that vit d testing is (lots of good primary article links in there): https://www.nature.com/news/2011/110706/full/475023a.html Here are the most updated guidelines I could find: https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/96/7/1911/2833671...

@tiff_tiff Probably going to get downvoted, but I’ll post this anyway. Unless you have renal failure, you are not vitamin D deficient and there is no medical need to supplement. The vitamin D level that is measured is in the inactive from. The active form (the one that matters) has a half life...