More about

Vitamin D Deficiency

News
March 20, 2021
4 min read
Save

Addressing health disparities: A conversation with Ambrish Mithal, MD, DM

Addressing health disparities: A conversation with Ambrish Mithal, MD, DM

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.

News
October 09, 2020
1 min read
Save

Attention to key preoperative factors can reduce cervical spine surgery complication risk

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.

News
September 08, 2020
1 min read
Save

Vitamin D deficiency may increase risk for COVID-19

Vitamin D deficiency may increase risk for COVID-19

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.

News
August 04, 2020
2 min read
Save

Vitamin D does not appear to slow vascular calcification progression in CKD

Vitamin D does not appear to slow vascular calcification progression in CKD

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.

News
December 17, 2019
3 min read
Save

High-dose vitamin D fails to improve mortality in critically ill patients

High-dose vitamin D fails to improve mortality in critically ill patients

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.

News
November 18, 2019
3 min read
Save

Pretreatment vitamin D deficiency linked to shorter survival in Hodgkin lymphoma

Pretreatment vitamin D deficiency linked to shorter survival in Hodgkin lymphoma

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.

News
September 22, 2019
3 min read
Save

Vitamin D deficiency tied to risk for diabetes death

Vitamin D deficiency tied to risk for diabetes death

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.

View more