Vitamin D has been shown to have extensive biological functions, including modulating immune function, inhibiting cellular proliferation, inducing differentiation, promoting apoptosis. Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent in critically ill patients, and it may impact the severity of illness and ...
Objective: To determine the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in critically ill children, and to study its association with parathyroid response, severity of illness and clinical outcomes. Design: Prospective observational study. Setting: Medical Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of a tertiary care centre ...
Northern Europeans were aware of the link between sun exposure and vitamin D production. To prevent rickets (a disease caused by vitamin D deficiency) and reduce upper respiratory tract infections the children were given a tablespoon of cod liver oil to swallow (Linday, 2010). Cod liver oil,...
Low vitamin D blood levels are related to many clinical outcomes in children with critically illness. However, the relationship of it and septic shock has not been systematically analyzed. The objective of this review was to evaluate the effect of vitami
Vitamin D deficiency biomarker identification by global metabolomics. To relate vitamin D status to the blood metabolite data, we used random forest (RF) predictors. An RF importance measure was used to rank metabolites according to their prognostic importance for vitamin D status. The colored boxes...
Fortunately, vitamin C deficiency is easy to treat. Doctors instructed the man to take 1,000 milligrams of the nutrient each day, plus a vitamin D3 supplement, folic acid and a multivitamin. He also worked with a dietitian to come up with a healt...
However, if we discovered a drug that enabled us to live healthy lives to 200-years-old, would we not come to view the drug as vitamin F, and regard our present ageing process as abnormal and as a vitamin-deficiency disease? [1987, 94, 97] Reznek next finds harm, not dysfunction, ...
The effects of brain serotonin deficiency on behavioural disinhibition and anxiety-like behaviour following mild early life stress. Int J Neuropsychopharma- col 16: 2081–2094. Sahay A, Hen R (2007). Adult hippocampal neurogenesis in depression. Nat Neurosci 10: 1110–1115. Sahay A, Scobie KN...
Various dimensions of malnutrition (eg underweight zinc deficiency iron deficiency vitamin A... Prof Pedro A Sanchez PhD a,Prof MS Swaminathan PhD b - 《Lancet》 被引量: 262发表: 2005年 Hunger in Africa: the link between unhealthy people and unhealthy soils. Malnutrition as the biggest risk ...
New research suggests the intrepid adventurer's persistent health problems stemmed from beriberi, a disease linked to vitamin B-1 deficiency.Public domain via Library of Congress Ernest Shackleton won fame in the early 20th century as an intrepidAntarctic adventurer. But on his very first trip to...