Rheumatology - Viva Health Laboratories

Essential and Toxic Elements Profile (38) – Urine [NUT1]

Indications: Urine elements are used to evaluate exposure to potentially toxic elements and wasting of nutrient elements: Antimony, Arsenic, Barium, Beryllium, Bismuth, Boron, Cadmium, Calcium, Caesium, Chromium, Cobalt, Copper, Gadolinium, Iron, Lead, Lithium, Magnesium, Manganese, Mercury, Molybdenum, Nickel, Palladium, Phosphorus, Platinum, Potassium, Selenium, Sodium, Strontium, Sulphur, Tellurium, Thallium, Thorium, Tin, Tungsten, Uranium, Vanadium, Zinc. Sample…

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Comprehensive Urine Elements Profile – Urine (minerals and toxic elements) [NUT14]

Indications: Urine elements are used to evaluate exposure to potentially toxic elements and wasting of nutrient elements. This profile includes 15 minerals and 20 toxic elements. Sample Requirements: 24 hour urine collection recommended (6 hour collection also acceptable): Sample Report: Instructions Postal Samples: Accepted

Attention Deficit And Hyperactivity Dementia Depression Fatigue - Chronic and ME Inflammatory Arthritis Toxic Elements

Health Risk Profile [HRP]

A panel of tests screening for sub-optimal biochemical markers of disease that may represent an increased disease risk for the future. The tests cover a range of standard biochemistry markers, and more specialised nutritional screening covering minerals, vitamins and fatty acids. The VHL Health Risk Profile Plus includes further tests to assess thyroid and cardiovascular…

Antioxidants Cardiology Endocrinology Essential Fatty Acids Gastroenterology Immunology Minerals Neurology Other Conditions Other Tests Profiles and Screens Rheumatology Vitamins and Function Tests

Fatty Acids (blood-spot NUT6, whole blood – NUT6P)

Over the past two decades there has been sustained interest in essential fatty acid supplementation. The focus has now switched from supplementation with fish oil to the use of oils containing specific, enhanced concentrations of named essential fatty acids. In the late 1990s large clinical trials were published supporting the cardiovascular benefits of consumption of…

Alcohol Excess Attention Deficit And Hyperactivity Cardiac Arrhythmias Cardiology Coronary Heart Disease Dementia Depression Diabetes Essential Fatty Acids Fatigue - Chronic and ME Hyperlipidaemia Inflammatory Arthritis Malabsorption Multiple Sclerosis Neuropathy Nutrient Interactions Obesity Schizophrenia

Food Intolerance Panel (IgG – Finger-Prick sample) [FIPB]

Indications: Immunoglobulin G (IgG) food sensitivity, also known as delayed food intolerance, describes an adverse reaction to food that is mediated by IgG antibodies. Unlike IgE mediated food allergies, which can cause immediate and severe reactions, IgG food sensitivities typically manifest with delayed symptoms that can take hours or days to appear. These symptoms can…

Allergy Attention Deficit And Hyperactivity Fatigue - Chronic and ME Inflammatory Arthritis Malabsorption Nutrient Interactions

IgE (total) [TIGE]

Sample Requirements: SST (gold top) Postal Samples: Accepted

Allergy Inflammatory Arthritis

Parathyroid Hormone [PTH]

Sample Requirements: Purple (EDTA) - centrifuge and separate plasma, refrigerate if sample won't reach the laboratory within 8 hours. Unseparated whole blood can also be accepted on the day of collection by prior arrangement. Postal Samples: Not acceptable. Turnaround time: 1-day

Biochemistry Osteoporosis Post Bariatric Surgery Vitamins and Function Tests

Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) [VIB2]

Indications: Riboflavin (vitamin B2) is the key building block for its co-enzymatic forms flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) and flavin mononucleotide (FMN), of which FAD is the main form in body tissues. FAD levels are a reliable way of assessing vitamin B2 status and are reported in our results. Vitamin B2 is required for carbohydrate, lipid…

Drug Interactions Inflammatory Arthritis Nutrient Interactions Vitamins and Function Tests

Vitamin D Panel (25-hydroxy D2 & D3) – serum [VITDS] & blood-spot [VITDB]

Indications: Raised in tumoral calcinosis, primary hyperparathyroidism, idopathic hypercalciuria and scarcoidosis as well as normal growing children and pregnant lactating females. Depressed in chronic renal failure, vitamin D dependent rickets, pseudohypoparathyroidism and tumor induced osteomalacia. This is the preferred test for vitamin D levels (also known as 25-hydroxyvitamin D). Sample Collection Instructions (finger-prick option): Vitamin…

Alcohol Excess Autism and Related Conditions Bipolar Cardiac Failure Coronary Heart Disease Depression Diabetes Fatigue - Chronic and ME Fibromyalgia Hyperlipidaemia Infections – Recurrent or Severe Inflammatory Arthritis Osteoporosis Schizophrenia Vitamins and Function Tests

Vitamin K1 and K2 [VITK]

Indications: There are a number of structurally similar, naturally occurring compounds which have vitamin K activity. The major plant form is phylloquinone (vitamin K1). The menaquinones (vitamins K2, also referred to as MK) are predominately of bacterial origin. In the typical Western diet, K1 and MK account for 90% and 10% of the vitamin K…

Cardiac Failure Coronary Heart Disease Fibromyalgia Hyperlipidaemia Malabsorption Osteoporosis Vitamins and Function Tests