Despite this recommendation, rickets still occurs in Canada. It is not known whether vitamin D deficiency in the Canadian population is solely attributable to inadequacies in vitamin supplementation. Thus, the evaluation of current practices, including awareness and compliance with recommendations, is ...
According to a recent study by researchers from Canada and the U.K., supplementing with vitamin D can also help reduce your risk of dementia. Dementia is an umbrella term for cognitive issues that commonly plague older adults, often characterized by an impaired ability to think, remember or ma...
This study shares findings on maternal adherence to vitamin D supplementation recommendations in Canada for infants and young children who are breastfed. Overall, 87.1% of mothers provide their breastfed infant a vitamin D supplement during the first year. The proportion giving a supplement is 90%...
Objectives: This review provides an overview of the etiological factors and consequences of vitamin D insufficiency in relation to spinal cord injury (SCI) as well as important considerations for vitamin D supplementation. Setting: Montreal, Canada. Methods: Literature search. Results: Vitamin D ...
PURPOSE: This study compares knowledge and practice of infant vitamin D supplementation among immigrant, refugee, and Canadian-born mothers. METHOD: Focus group discussions with 94 mothers of children aged 0 to 3 years recruited from early childhood centers and a refugee health clinic. FINDINGS: Bot...
Vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy: Double-blind, randomized clinical trial of safety and effectiveness (OH)D concentration of 80 nmol/L or greater achieved and the 25(OH)D concentration required to achieve maximal 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25(OH)... BW Hollis,D Johnson,TC Hulsey...
Investigators also looked at the effects of vitamin D supplementation on complications during pregnancy, including preeclampsia,gestational diabetes, infections, and preterm labor and birth. "The spectacular part of the study was it showed women replete in vitamin D had lower rates of preterm labor an...
Jonathon Maguire, a pediatrician at St. Michael's Hospital, Canada, and colleagues randomly assigned 703 children aged one to five years old to receive 2,000 International Units per day (IU/d) of vitamin D oral supplementation or 400 IU/d for a minimum of four months between September and...
There was a need for a cost-effective andrapid testthat assesses vitamin D status from a blood sample, he says. Britz-McKibbin and his colleagues developed a rapid method to identify vitamin D deficiency in critically ill children, who would likely benefit from vitamin D supplementation. The ...
“Based on current studies, vitamin D3 supplementation probably does not protect against developing cancer, but it could reduce the likelihood of dying from cancer. However, previous studies on cancer mortality have yielded very different results, and we were interested in the reasons for this,” ...