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Vitamin D: hero or hype.
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After completing this CME activity, physicians should be better able to explain how vitamin D is utilized and critically analyze the multiple health claims of vitamin D.Abstract:
In recent years, vitamin D deficiency has been implicated, by predominantly observational studies, in a wide variety of ailments including skeletal disease, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, mental and neurologic disorders, and various etiologies of adverse pregnancy outcome. The following iread more
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Vitamin D deficiency.
TL;DR: It is suggested that if assessment of overdoses were left to house doctors there would be an increase in admissions to psychiatric units, outpatients, and referrals to social services, but for house doctors to assess overdoses would provide no economy for the psychiatric or social services.
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Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease
TL;DR: This 11th edition of the book Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease, featuring the work of more than 190 expert authors and divided into five parts, fully explains and encapsulates the fundamentals of nutrition and its role in contemporary society.
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Impact of vitamin D on pregnancy-related disorders and on offspring outcome.
Karoline von Websky,Ahmed A. Hasan,Christoph Reichetzeder,Oleg Tsuprykov,Berthold Hocher,Berthold Hocher +5 more
TL;DR: Reliable data from large observational and interventional randomized control trials are urgently needed as a basis for any detailed and safe recommendations for supplementation in the general population and, most importantly, in pregnant women.
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Association between mental disorders, cognitive disturbances and vitamin D serum level: Current state.
TL;DR: An association between low vitamin D serum levels and different mental disorders was found and there is no clear consensus that addition of vitamin D improves or is related to a beneficial effect on mental health.
Vitamin D Status and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Death
Annamari Kilkkinen,Paul Knekt,Antti Aro,Harri Rissanen,Jukka Marniemi,Markku Heliövaara,O Impivaara,Antti Reunanen +7 more
TL;DR: A low vitamin D level may be associated with higher risk of a fatal CVD event, particularly cerebrovascular death, and these findings need to be replicated in other populations.
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Vitamin D Deficiency
TL;DR: The role of vitamin D in skeletal and nonskeletal health is considered and strategies for the prevention and treatment ofitamin D deficiency are suggested.
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Vitamin D deficiency.
TL;DR: It is suggested that if assessment of overdoses were left to house doctors there would be an increase in admissions to psychiatric units, outpatients, and referrals to social services, but for house doctors to assess overdoses would provide no economy for the psychiatric or social services.
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Intake of vitamin D and risk of type 1 diabetes: a birth-cohort study
Elina Hyppönen,Esa Läärä,Antti Reunanen,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Suvi M. Virtanen +5 more
TL;DR: Vitamin D supplementation was associated with a decreased frequency of type 1 diabetes when adjusted for neonatal, anthropometric, and social characteristics and Ensuring adequate vitamin D supplementation for infants could help to reverse the increasing trend in the incidence ofType 1 diabetes.
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Calcium plus vitamin D supplementation and the risk of fractures.
Rebecca D. Jackson,Andrea Z. LaCroix,Margery Gass,Robert B. Wallace,John A Robbins,Cora E. Lewis,Tamsen Bassford,Shirley A.A. Beresford,Henry R. Black,Patricia L. Blanchette,Denise E. Bonds,Robert L. Brunner,Robert G. Brzyski,Bette J. Caan,Jane A. Cauley,Rowan T. Chlebowski,Steven R. Cummings,Iris A. Granek,Jennifer Hays,Gerardo Heiss,Susan L. Hendrix,Barbara V. Howard,Judith Hsia,F. Allan Hubbell,Karen C. Johnson,Howard L. Judd,Jane Morley Kotchen,Lewis H. Kuller,Robert Langer,Norman L. Lasser,Marian C. Limacher,Shari E. Ludlam,JoAnn E. Manson,Karen L. Margolis,Joan McGowan,Judith K. Ockene,Mary Jo O'Sullivan,Lawrence S. Phillips,Ross L. Prentice,Gloria E. Sarto,Marcia L. Stefanick,Linda Van Horn,Jean Wactawski-Wende,Evelyn P Whitlock,Garnet L. Anderson,Annlouise R. Assaf,David H. Barad +46 more
TL;DR: Among healthy postmenopausal women, calcium with vitamin D supplementation resulted in a small but significant improvement in hip bone density, did not significantly reduce hip fracture, and increased the risk of kidney stones.
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Influence of season and latitude on the cutaneous synthesis of vitamin D3: exposure to winter sunlight in Boston and Edmonton will not promote vitamin D3 synthesis in human skin.
TL;DR: The dramatic influence of changes in solar UVB radiation on cutaneous vitamin D3 synthesis is quantified and the latitudinal increase in the length of the "vitamin D winter" during which dietary supplementation of the vitamin may be advisable is indicated.
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