If not testing for deficiency, physicians must provide vitamin D to deficient populations - A task for public health?
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Source: BMJ Comments - July 25, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Vitamin D
How an increasingly popular supplement landed a man in the hospital | CNN
A private nutritionist told a British man to take large doses of vitamin D along with other supplements. It didn't go well.
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Daily oral dosing of vitamin D3 using 5000 TO 50,000 international units a day in long-term hospitalized patients: Insights from a seven year experience - PubMed
Vitamin D3 is a secosteroid hormone produced in the skin in amounts estimated up to 25,000...
Source: Student Doctor Network - July 12, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: lobelsteve Tags: Pain Medicine Source Type: forums
Vitamin D supplementation
Riddle me this:
If someone is osteopenic, we give Calcium/Vitamin D supplementation. The vitamin D in caltrate is 400 U of D3, BID, so that's 5600 U of D3 per week. (that D3 is a calcitriol analog, right? read to go).
If we later find out same patient is 25-hydroxy deficient (the typical lab we check), does it then make sense to add ergocalciferol (a D2 analog), 50KU/week, on top of the D3 we're giving? Put another way, if you're already giving a D3 analog, why would you give a D2...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - July 1, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: DrMetal Tags: Internal Medicine and IM Subspecialties Source Type: forums
It is wrong and misleading to call vitamin D an orphan treatment. Better would be to call it a neglected prophylactic: UK chief medical officers appear to neglect the population ’s need for sufficient vitamin D, tolerating widespread deficiency
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Source: BMJ Comments - April 6, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Re: It is wrong and misleading to call vitamin D an orphan treatment. Better would be to call it a neglected prophylactic: UK chief medical officers appear to neglect the population ’s need for sufficient vitamin D, tolerating widespread deficiency
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Source: BMJ Comments - April 6, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Re: Vitamin D and covid-19 - Is it ethical to allow widespread vitamin D deficiency whilst claiming insufficient evidence?
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Source: BMJ Comments - March 9, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Susceptibilities to COVID-19 severity and complications are driven largely by vitamin D deficiency
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Source: BMJ Comments - March 7, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Re: Poverty, health, and covid-19 : one action could be taken now: beat vitamin D deficiency in the less affluent areas
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Source: BMJ Comments - February 27, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Vitamin D deficiency ignored Re: Managing the long term effects of covid-19: summary of NICE, SIGN, and RCGP rapid guideline
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Source: BMJ Comments - January 25, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Vitamin D deficiency Re: Clinical characteristics of children and young people admitted to hospital with covid-19 in United Kingdom: prospective multicentre observational cohort study
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Source: BMJ Comments - November 2, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Living risk prediction algorithm (QCOVID) for risk of hospital admission and mortality from coronavirus 19: vitamin D deficiency should be included
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Source: BMJ Comments - October 22, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Deficiency of vitamin D must be corrected if best immune response is wanted
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Source: BMJ Comments - October 7, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Vitamin D deficiency due to skin pigmentation and diet may explain much of the higher rates of COVID-19 among BAME in England
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Source: BMJ Comments - June 6, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
COVID-19: a pandemic related to vitamin D deficiency and air pollution?
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Source: BMJ Comments - June 3, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
COVID-19 ’ICU’ risk – 20-fold greater in the Vitamin D Deficient. BAME, African Americans, the Older, Institutionalised and Obese, are at greatest risk. Sun and ‘D’-supplementation – Game-changers? Research urgently required.
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Source: BMJ Comments - April 24, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
