Vitamin Deficiency

Vitamin D deficiency linked to portal hypertension complications, poor ...
Healio
Patients with alcoholic cirrhosis and severe vitamin D deficiency are at a greater risk for death and more likely to have severe cirrhosis and experience portal hypertension-related complications, according to data presented at the International Liver ...

Toronto NewsFIX
Vitamin B1 deficiency can occur after obesity surgery
Toronto NewsFIX
She was judged to have Wenicke's encephalopathy, because of vitamin B1 deficiency. A brain scan confirmed the deficiency. She was treated with vitamin B1 injections and her symptoms cleared up. Her doctors say that those caring for patients being ...

Booming | Vitamin D is indeed good for your health
The Courier-Journal
Several recent scientific studies indicate that vitamin D deficiency may be at the root of many health problems. It is surprising, because of all the vitamins the body requires, vitamin D has been one of least concern because it can be produced from ...

Medscape
Safe Upper Limit of Vitamin D Identified for First Time - Medscape
Medscape
"Those with high serum 25(OH)D levels at the time of enrollment in the studies were most likely supplemented with vitamin D, possibly due to diagnosis of a vitamin-D-deficiency disease. Thus, their health could be undermined by years of vitamin-D ...

Workshop on vitamin D deficiency
Times of India
BHOPAL: A workshop on vitamin D deficiency will be held on Thursday. It is being organized by Centre for Community Economy and Development Consultants Society in cooperation with Madhya Pradesh Council for Science and Technology and Global ...

Connection between vitamin D and weight
STLtoday.com
Answer • Some aspects of vitamin D remain controversial; others are not. It is generally accepted that adequate calcium and vitamin D are essential for daily health. It is also true that there is a lot of vitamin D deficiency in this country — how ...
Is “D” Key?Michronicleonline

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Medical Daily
Experts Argue Over How Much Vitamin D Is Right For Infants
Medical Daily
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emphasizes that vitamin D from breast milk is not enough since a vitamin D deficiency rickets, or bone softening, were reported among the population of breastfed infants in the United States. In the study ...
Researchers assess multiple vitamin D doses in healthy breast-fed infantsHealio
Optimal vitamin D dosage for infants uncertain - EurekAlert!EurekAlert (press release)
Study Looks at Vitamin D Needs in Breast-Fed BabiesHealth.com

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More Than 80 Pct of Healthy Indians Are Vitamin D Deficient - SiliconIndia
Siliconindia.com
Vitamin D deficiency is fast becoming a global and National Health Concern. It is estimated that around 80 percent of the Indian population has Vitamin D levels less than normal. However, the bigger concern is that the population at large is not even ...

Vitamin D: The sunshine vitamin
Jamaica Gleaner
Research shows that over 90 per cent of African Americans are vitamin D deficient. Many Jamaicans also have this deficiency. Almost all of the patients who I have tested have low levels of vitamin D in their blood although they live in sunny Jamaica ...
Time for vitamin DKirksville Daily Express and Daily News (blog)

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CKD Linked to Vitamin D Deficiency
Renal and Urology News
The age-standardized annual incidence of albuminuria was significantly higher for subjects with vitamin D deficiency than those without (1.50% vs. 0.66%), researchers reported online ahead of print in the American Journal of Kidney Disease.

Medscape
To [Vitamin] D or Not to D? That Is the Question - Medscape
Medscape
Vitamin-D deficiency is generally defined as a level of less than 20 ng/mL (<50 nm/L), and there are correlations in large observational studies "indicating that if you are vitamin-D deficient you get more cancer, especially colon cancer, you get more ...

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Lifestyle changes can fight Vitamin D deficiency
gulfnews.com
There is a widespread vitamin D deficiency among women and adolescent girls in the UAE, which is a major cause of concern. According to the Dubai Health Authority (DHA), two out of three women are vitamin D deficient and it could get worse if things ...

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Vitamin D deficiency rampant in population
Times of India
Dr Saboo further added, "Low level of Vitamin D is associated with higher incidence of type 2 diabetes and correcting Vitamin D deficiency improves insulin sensitivity and helps in better management of hyperglycaemia. Also Vitamin D deficiency has been ...

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High prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in UAE women and girls
Zawya (registration)
A study published in early 2013 from the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) posits that the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency is higher in adolescent girls than boys. The study surveyed 315 - Emirati and expatriate - adolescents in Abu Dhabi and ...
Lifestyle changes can fight Vitamin D deficiencygulfnews.com

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High vitamin A, low vitamin D increases osteoporosis risk
Food Consumer
Vitamin D is synthesize after the skin is exposed to U.V. rays. Vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency is commonly seen in Winter or regions where people do not have many sunny days. Only a few foods such as mushrooms and oily fish contain vitamin D ...

Vitamin D Deficiency in Type 1 Diabetes Patients - Diabetes In Control
Diabetes In Control
Observational studies in humans looking at the association between vitamin D and Type 1 diabetes found that there is a connection between vitamin D deficiency and Type 1 diabetes. There was higher prevalence of Type 1 diabetic patients in those who had ...

Over 80% of healthy Indians are Vitamin D-deficient, say experts
Hindu Business Line
India may be a country that gets bountiful sunshine, yet Indians are deprived of Vitamin D, experts say. So, the best way to beat this Vitamin D deficiency is to expose oneself to sunshine between 10 am and 3 pm, they aver. The reason for the ...
First UK clinical guideline for treating vitamin D deficiency publishedOnMedica

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UPI.com
About half of U.S. obese children deficient in vitamin D
UPI.com
"One-in-2 children with severe obesity is vitamin D deficient, and only about 10 percent of severely obese African-American children are not deficient," Turer said in a statement. "While we don't know for sure what causes the deficiency, there are ...

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About half of US obese children deficient in vitamin D
UPI.com
"One-in-2 children with severe obesity is vitamin D deficient, and only about 10 percent of severely obese African-American children are not deficient," Turer said in a statement. "While we don't know for sure what causes the deficiency, there are ...

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Vitamin A deficiency in beef herds lingering effect of drought
Agri-View
An earlier-than-normal start to feeding stored feeds last fall due to droughty pastures, coupled with lower-quality hay during the winter feeding period, is resulting in calves showing vitamin A deficiency. That's according to Grant Dewell, Iowa State ...