Calcium (Ca) In Urine: What Affects The Test
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What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
- Too much or too little calcium in the diet.
- Taking medicines, such as diuretics, growth hormones, parathyroid hormone (PTH), antacids, or steroids.
- Taking too much vitamin D, lithium, laxatives, theophylline, or aspirin.
- Not collecting 24 hours' worth of urine.
- Too much sun exposure, which affects vitamin D levels.
- Being on bed rest for a long time.
| Last updated: | September 29, 2008 |
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| Author: | Monica Rhodes |
| Reviewed By: | E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine, Tushar J. Vachharajani, MD, FASN, FACP - Nephrology |
| Editors: | Maria Essig, Tracy Landauer |
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