This Series on “New Biomarkers in Non-communicable Diseases” is edited by Dr. Tatsuo Shimosawa from the International University of Health and Welfare, School of Medicine, IUHW Narita Hospital, Department of Clinical Laboratory,852 Hatakeda, Narita, Chiba 286-8520 Japan

This Series on “Laboratory Medicine in Diabetic Kidney Disease” is edited by Dr. Rafael Noal Moresco from the Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry, Department of Clinical and Toxicological Analysis, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.

Guest Editor: Nuthar Jassam (Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Harrogate Foundation Trust, Harrogate, UK)

Guest Editor: Kate E Shipman, BMBCh, MA (Hons Oxon), MRCP, FRCPath, Consultant Chemical Pathologist, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Worthing Hospital, Worthing, United Kingdom

Guest Editor: Rousseau Gama (Black Country Pathology Services, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, UK; Department of Laboratory and Metabolic Medicine, School of Medicine and Clinical Practice, Wolverhampton University, UK)

This series on “Iron Metabolism” is edited by Dr. Katell Peoc’h, from Hôpital Beaujon, Service de Biochimie, APHP, HUPNVS, DHU Unity, Clichy, France.

Guest Editor: Zhi-De Hu (Department of Laboratory Medicine, the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China)

Guest Editors: Martina Montagnana (Section of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Verona, Verona, Italy), and Zhi-De Hu (Department of Laboratory Medicine, the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China)

Faecal Testing

Guest Editor: Mark Cervinski (Department of Pathology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, United States; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Dr., Lebanon, NH, USA)

Guest Editor: Fabian Sanchis-Gomar (Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Valencia, INCLIVA Biomedical Research Institute, Valencia, Spain)

Guest Editors: Sridevi Devaraj (Department of Clinical Chemistry and POCT, Texas Children’s Microbiome Center, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA) and Jing Cao (Clinical Chemistry, Texas Children's Hospital; Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA)

Guest Editors: Giuseppe Lippi (Section of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Verona, Verona, Italy) and Mario Plebani (Department of Laboratory Medicine, University-Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy)

Guest Editor: Dirk Roggenbuck (GA Generic Assays GmbH, L.-Erhard-Ring 3, Berlin, Germany; Institute of Biotechnology, Faculty of Environment and Natural Sciences, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Senftenberg, Germany)

Guest Editors: Markus Herrmann (Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria) and Barbara Obermayer-Pietsch (Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria)

Guest Editors: Giuseppe Lippi (Section of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Verona, Verona, Italy) and Mario Plebani (Department of Laboratory Medicine, University-Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy)

Guest Editor: Pierre Delanaye (Department of Nephrology, Dialysis, Hypertension, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium)

Guest Editors: Michael Cornes (Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Worcestershire, UK) and Jennifer Atherton (Liverpool Clinical Laboratories, Blood Sciences Department, Aintree University Hospital, Liverpool, UK)

Guest Editor: Hemant Goyal (Mercer University School of Medicine, USA)

Guest Editor: Fabian Sanchis-Gomar (Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA)

Guest Editors: Giuseppe Lippi (Section of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Verona, Verona, Italy) and Mario Plebani (Department of Laboratory Medicine, University-Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy)