Vitamin D linked to fewer suicides.
Vitamin D Supplementation Linked to Fewer Suicide Attempts
A large retrospective study of US veterans finds those receiving vitamin D2 or D3 had fewer suicide attempts or episodes of intentional self-harm than matched peers who didn't take the vitamin.
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Source: Student Doctor Network - February 5, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: whopper Tags: Psychiatry 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
A case of generalized disability and muscle weakness.
Ghofran is 42 year old female who presented with fatigue, joint pain, proximal muscle weakness and agonising whole body pain. Nothing remarkable on her examination. Upon investigation for connective tissue disease everything was normal. Her vitamin D level was severely lowered. Again her related metabolic profile was normal and no obvious cause for the vitamin D deficiency. I commenced her on high dose ergocalciferol. On follow up visit one month later a failure to increase vitamin D is noticed and the patient still suffering. I am eager to read your kind responses to this dilemma case and your suggestions about next step....
Source: Doc2Doc BMJ Cardiology - April 27, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Majid Hameed Source Type: forums
