Markus Herrmann

TL;DR: Current commercial immunological assays for measuring Lp(a) concentrations are differently calibrated and their biases differ significantly across the clinically relevant concentration range in a non-linear manner.

TL;DR: A systematic analysis evaluating critically the advantages and limits of the current assays available for the measure of vitamin D status, i.e., circulating 25(OH)D and its metabolites, making suggestions that could be used in the clinical practice.

TL;DR: Serum bone formation marker PINP and resorption marker βCTX-I are the preferred markers for evaluating bone turnover in the clinical setting due to their specificity to bone, performance in clinical studies, wide use and relatively low analytical variability.

TL;DR: Hyperhomocysteinemia and vitamin B6 deficiency correlate with increased mortality and might be explained by accelerated telomere shortening induced by oxidative stress and systemic inflammation in these circumstances.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that short telomere length increases the risk of all-cause and CVD mortality is supported, although additional adjustment for age attenuated this effect.