Use of Model-Based Compartmental Analysis and Theoretical Data to Further Explore Choice of Sampling Time for Assessing Vitamin A Status in Groups and Individual Human Subjects by the Retinol Isotope Dilution Method

ABSTRACT Background An optimal blood sampling time for application of the retinol isotope dilution (RID) method for predicting vitamin A total body stores (TBS) (i.e., vitamin A status) has not been established. Objectives Objectives were to identify sampling times that provide accurate estimates of TBS by RID in groups and individuals by applying compartmental modeling to data for theoretical adults and children. Methods We selected previously generated hypothetical adults and children (20 per group) that had a wide range of assigned values for TBS and vitamin A kinetic parameters. We used the Simulation, Analysis and Modeling software to simulate individual kinetic responses; then we calculated geometric mean values for the RID equation coefficients and each individual's plasma retinol specific activity at various times, using those values to predict group mean and individual subject TBS. Predicted values for TBS were compared with assigned values. Results Accurate estimates of group mean TBS were obtained at all sampling times from 1 to 30 d in both adults and children. For individuals, correlations between RID-predicted TBS and assigned values increased with time in the adults (R2 = 0.80 at day 14, 0.96 at day 21, and 0.99 at day 28); a similar trend was observed for the children, with R2 = 0.82 at day 7 and increasing to 0.97 at days 21 and 28 (P < 0.001 for all comparisons). Conclusions Although no single, unique time provided the most accurate prediction of TBS for all individuals within these groups, applying the RID method at 21 or 28 d yielded predictions that were within 25% of assigned values for 90% or 95% of adults, respectively; corresponding values for children were 80% from 10 to 20 d, and 85% at 21 and 28 d. For most subjects, early times (<14 d for adults and <10 d for children) provided less accurate predictions.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Journal of NutriLife

• Publication date

  2021-04-08

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1093/jn/nxab061PMID 33834213PMCID 8245873
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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