Vitamin D levels <20 ng/mL are considered vitamin D deficient. Vitamin D deficiency may lead to elevated parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels (secondary hyperparathyroidism). If your patients' test results reveal that they are vitamin D deficient, the Endocrine Society recommends that they rece...
Across the population, vitamin D status is also a cause of significant alarm with increasing reports of deficiency.practice nurse
Independent predictors of vitamin D deficiency were determined using survey-weighted Poisson regression models at the individual level. Potential predictors of deficiency for adolescents were sex, age, region of birth, season, BMI and socioeconomic status (data for education and smoking were not availab...
There is consensus that daily intake of 400 IU of vitamin D can prevent nutritional rickets in infants and children1. However, the skeletal effects of vitamin D deficiency in adults and older adults (aged >65 years), and the potential extra-skeletal effects of vitamin D are more controversial...
Vitamin A deficiency is the major cause of severe diseases, infections and preventable blindness in children. It is one of the major causes of night blindness in pregnant women. It also affects the immune system and results in deaths from malaria, diarrhoea and measles. ...
Eighty-eight percent of patients with severe sepsis had vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency (serum 25-OHD < 75 nmol/L). Median serum 25-OHD concentration was 43.2 nmol/L. There was no significant difference in serum 25-OHD levels between ALI cases and controls (median 45.8 versus 39.0 ...
Vitamin D deficiency. N Engl J Med. 2007;357(3):266-281. doi:10.1056/NEJMra070553PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 24. Han J, Guo X, Yu X, et al. 25-hydroxyvitamin D and total cancer incidence and mortality: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies. Nutrients. ...
Those at risk for vitamin D deficiency include: older adults those with limited exposure to the sun people with dark skin those with fat malabsorption conditions like inflammatory bowel disease those who have had gastric bypass surgery breastfed infants ...
nutrients Article Vitamin D Deficiency is Associated with Increased Use of Antimicrobials among Preschool Girls in Ethiopia Johanna Bodin 1,2, Adane Mihret 3, Carol Holm-Hansen 1, Jennifer L. Dembinski 1,4 , Mai-Chi Trieu 2,5, Bamlak Tessema 3, Azeb Tarekegne 3, Solomon A. Yimer 6,...
Vitamin D deficiency as a risk factor for infection, sepsis and mortality in the critically ill: systematic review and meta-analysis. Crit Care Lond Engl. 2014;18:660. Article Google Scholar Arboleda JF, Urcuqui-Inchima S. Vitamin D-regulated microRNAs: are they protective factors against ...