Varta Babalyan

TL;DR: The focus of this article is to apply the current understanding of vitamin D as a facilitator of immunocompetence both with regard to innate and adaptive immunity and to consider how this may relate to COVID-19 disease.

TL;DR: A substantial proportion of major osteoporotic fractures in Armenia do not come to hospital attention, and disparities between surrogate and authentic FRAX models indicate the importance of developing country-specific FRAx models.

TL;DR: Osteoporosis is a challenge for the countries of the Eurasian region and its burden is about to get worse due to the expected demographic changes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a random modified cluster model survey of women in the country and measured 25-hydroxyvitamin D by liquid chromatography mass spectrometry in dried blood spot samples and utilized a questionnaire to assess lifestyle factors.