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GENERAL NOTES
APPLICATION: Investigation of haemolysis in infants (especially premature); monitoring of children with severe, chronic fat malabsorption (especially chronic cholestasis) in whom a progressive cerebellar and sensory dysfunction may develop. A role in the investigation of atherosclerosis in individual patients has not been established.
INTERPRETATION: Low levels indicate deficiency, however, vitamin E is carried in plasma lipoproteins, and hyperlipidaemia may disguise an underlying deficiency, especially in patients with cholestasis.