Use of a Loading Dose of Vitamin D for Treatment of Vitamin D Deficiency in Patients With Intestinal Failuredoi:10.1177/0148607115625220Vitamin D deficiency is common in patients with intestinal failure and short bowel syndrome who have been weaned of parenteral nutrition. Dietary supplementation with ...
Note that several members of the IOM committee publicly stated that over screening for vitamin D deficiency was a problem which typically resulted in unnecessary treatment. They were not in agreement with a cut-off level of 20 ng/ml for deficiency and recommended a lower level of 12.5 ng/ml....
The amount of vitamin D you need to treat your deficiency depends on how deficient you are and your risk factors. Your doctor may start you on a higher dose of 6,000 IU of D3 a day. Once your level goes above 30 nanograms per milliliter, you will usually take a 1,000-2,000 IU...
High-DoseVitaminDforCriticallyIllPatients 3 betweenthetreatmenteffectandthebaselineminD–deficientunderwentrandomization,and 21 25-hydroxyvitaminDlevel.Wecomparedtime1078ofthesepatientshadvitaminDdeficiency todeathtoday90usingKaplan–Meiercurves.confirmedbyliquidchromatography–tandem Wecomparedadverseeventswiththeeventas...
今年刚结束的ASCO会议报道:早期乳腺癌患者若缺乏维生素D其预后较差, 原文如下: Vitamin D deficiency is common at breast cancer diagnosis, but it also is associated with poor prognosis, according to a study conducted at three University of Toronto hospitals. Pamela J. Goodwin, MD, of Mount Sinai Hos...
and cancer. Identification, treatment, and prevention of vitamin D deficiency in childhood may therefore have profound health effects throughout the life span. In this review, we discuss the definitions, epidemiology, clinical implications, and treatment of vitamin D deficiency in children and adolescen...
Being that the sun is the primary source of vitamin D, your exposure, or lack of it, will impact your risk for a deficiency. The Endocrine Society recommends screening and treatment for individuals at risk, including older adults with a history of falls or nontraumatic fractures; obese childre...
If the deficiency is severe and persists, especially in malnourished infants and children, a condition known as xerophthalmia may develop. In xerophthalmia, the eyes are sensitive to light, the secretion of lubricating tears is stopped, and the eyelids become swollen and sticky with pus. The mucou...
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with the onset and progression of hypertension and cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, mechanisms underlying vitamin D deficiency-mediated increased risk of CVD remain unknown. We sought to examine the differential effect of high-dose versus low-dose vitamin D ...
Chronic airway inflammatory and infectious respiratory diseases are the most common medical respiratory conditions, associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Vitamin D (1,25(OH)2D3) deficiency has been shown to be highly prevalent in patients