The incidence of vitamin D deficiency for our population is 1 in 923 children overall and 1 in 117 in children of Asian origin. The average cost of treatment for each such child is 拢2500, while the theoretical cost of prevention of vitamin D deficiency in the Asian population through ...
sufficient vitamin-D (> 50 nmol/L); rural subjects and boys had higher concentrations (p < 0.05). On regression analysis, younger age, female-gender, overweight and urban residence significantly contributed to deficiency. More than half the Indian children/adolescents were vitamin-D deficien...
Vitamin D deficiency is widespread amongst renal transplant recipients (RTRs), thus providing one patho-mechanism that may influence the achievement of a successful degree of immunosuppression. It may also influence the development of the infectious, cardiovascular and neoplastic complications seen in RTRs...
Practical guidelines for the supplementation of vitamin D and the treatment of deficits in Central Europe — recommended vitamin D intakes in the general population and groups at risk of vitamin D deficiency PDF, with some titles in Polish, is attached at the bottom of this page Endokrynolo...
Furthermore, activated IFNα pathways are associated with both active disease and endothelial dys- function in SLE patients9, supporting the use of IFNα treatment of MACs as a useful model of SLE. Epidemiological studies show that vitamin D deficiency is associated with future cardiovascular ...
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Vitamin D deficiency in psychiatric in-patients and treatment with daily supplements of calcium and ergocalciferol. Psychiatr Bull 2008;32:390e3. 23. Applebaum PS. Assessment of patient's competence to consent to treatment. N Eng J Med 2007;357:1834e40. 24. Owen GS, Richardson G, David AS...
Interviewees considered that GPs were responsible for the vitamin D status of elderly care home residents, with prescriptions only written in response to falls or a diagnosis of vitamin D deficiency or osteoporosis rather than as maintenance or preventive treatment, which reflects current NHS guidance...
Vitamin D deficiency is a public health concern worldwide. Maintaining vitamin D sufficiency during growth periods is essential. We aimed to determine the prevalence and predictors of vitamin D deficiency in Australian adolescents and young adults. We us
In addition, vitamin D sufficiency seems to suppress down- regulation of E-cadherin, a glycoprotein that helps to keep cells in close contact and thus a well-differentiated state, which occurs in vitamin D deficiency, thereby improving breast cancer prognosis (Berx and Van Roy, 2001; Mohr et...