Vitamin D Deficiency

Founder of India’s first bone density and osteoporosis service, Ambrish Mithal, MD, DM, played a key role in establishing osteoporosis as a serious national health problem.

Cervical spine surgery results may be improved by addressing patients’ nutritional status, bone mineral density, frailty, mental health and other factors preoperatively, a presenter said at the North American Spine Society Annual Meeting.

Individuals with vitamin D deficiency were more likely to develop COVID-19 than those who had sufficient vitamin D levels, data from a single-center, retrospective cohort study published in JAMA Network Open show.

In the course of 18 months, supplementation with cholecalciferol did not attenuate vascular calcification progression in patients with chronic kidney disease and vitamin D insufficiency, though it did restore 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels.

In critically ill, vitamin D-deficient patients admitted to the ICU, early administration of high-dose enteral vitamin D3 yielded similar 90-day mortality and nonfatal outcomes compared with placebo, according to new data from the VIOLET trial.

Vitamin D status appeared to be an independent predictor of clinical outcomes and may affect chemosensitivity among patients with Hodgkin lymphoma, according to results of a prospective case-control study published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Adults with vitamin D deficiency are more likely to die of complications from diabetes during 10 years of follow-up when compared with vitamin D-sufficient adults, according to study data presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes annual meeting.