Physicians can give 1 to 2 doses of 50,000 IU weekly for 8 to 16 weeks and then maintain > 40 ng/ml levels of 25(OH)D with 50,000 IU doses every 1, 2, or 4 weeks. Dosing is dependent on the other aforementioned variables, but ergocalciferol may be less effective than ...
A dosing scheme to reach sufficient 25(OH)D concentrations is proposed.doi:10.1111/bcp.12006Foissac, FrantzTréluyer, Jean-MarcSouberbielle, Jean-ClaudeRostane, HafedaUrien, Sa?kViard, Jean-PaulJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd (10.1111)British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology...
Abnormalities in calcium, phosphorus, and bone metabolism, e.g., rickets in children, osteopenia and osteoporosis in adults; and Muscle weakness. How to calculate vitamin D dosage? Various institutions have proposed different recommendations for the amount of daily intake of vitamin D. The recommende...
I need your expert opinion for my parents. They are 65 year old, in overall good health and stay in India. My mom has osteopenia and low levels of Vitamin D3 despite of taking 50,000IU every week. She had her gall bladder removed 20 years back for gall stones. I assume thats the ...
The effect of a combined supplementation of vitamin D and vitamin K2 in children would be potentially beneficial from a physiological point of view in order to evaluate the effect, risks or undesirable side effects; however, beforehand dose finding and safety studies are required for the combined ...
Appropriate supplemental vitamin D would be a low-cost nutritional intervention available worldwide that could reduce respiratory support, BPD, infections, osteopenia, poor growth, and/or NDI in EP infants, and the long-term adverse effects of these disorders for these babies and their families [17...
The relevance of vitamin D dosing with respect to reduction of falls could also be confirmed: at the higher dose (700–1000 IU vitamin D/day), vitamin D reduced the risk of a fall by 34% (OR = 0.66 [0.53, 0.82] P = 0.0002), while no reduction of falls was observed at the lower...
This randomized clinical trial compares the effects of 2 vitamin D dosing strategies on recurrent wheezing in black infants at 12months of age who were
19. The method of claim 6 wherein the compound is a 1α,25-dihydroxy-19-norvitamin D3 compounds having the formula: 20. A method of treating osteopenia comprising administering to a subject with osteopenia an effective amount of a compound having the formula: where Y is selected from the...
The evolution of our understanding of the biological impact of vitamin D is briefly reviewed, with a focus on the physiology and endocrinology of the vitam