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Vitamin D levels low in many women on osteoporosis Tx.(Gynecology)
WASHINGTON -- Vitamin D levels are inadequate in up to half of postmenopausal women who receive treatment for osteoporosis, Ethel Siris, M.D., reported during an international symposium sponsored by the National Osteoporosis Foundation.
Vitamin D inadequacy was significantly worse among women who took less than 400 IU of vitamin D supplementation daily, compared with women who took at least 400 IU of vitamin D daily (63% vs. 45%).
Previous study findings suggest that serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations of at least 30 ng/mL are needed to stabilize serum parathyroid hormone levels, Dr. Siris, director of the metabolic bone diseases program at Columbia University, New York, and her colleagues, wrote in a poster presentation.
In a cross-sectional, observational study conducted between November 2003 and March 2004, the investigators collected blood samples from 1,536 postmenopausal women, mean age 71 years, at 61 sites ...
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...oil; (2) An IM injection with 250,000 IU of vitamin A (1 mL of vitamin A palmitate in oil), and (3) An IM injection with 500,000 IU of vitamin A (2 mL of vitamin A palmitate in oil). The sows were fed a fortified...
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...normal range for plasma vitamin B 6 for males is 7...milliliter (ng/mL) for males and 2...levels of certain vitamins are as follows. Please...milliliter (pg/mL), nanogram/milliliter...refer to the weight of vitamin in the specified volume...
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...intravenous infusion of 1 g of vitamin C in 200 ml of saline over a period of 30 minutes...likely due to the administration of vitamin C. Acidification of the urine...from two percent to 70%, and vitamin C treatment decreased the urine...
- S. Korean Women's Vitamin D Deficiency Serious: Study.
- News wire article from: YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea April 26, 2005 700+ words
...women had the highest level of vitamin D, 35.1 ng/ml, followed by those in the Netherlands...in Hungary had a 32.2 ng/ml level of vitamin D, while those in Thailand and...had 36.7 ng/ml and 22 ng/ml vitamin D levels each. By continent...
- S KOREAN WOMEN'S VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY SERIOUS: STUDY.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News April 26, 2005 700+ words
...women had the highest level of vitamin D, 35.1 ng/ml, followed by those in the Netherlands...in Hungary had a 32.2 ng/ml level of vitamin D, while those in Thailand and...had 36.7 ng/ml and 22 ng/ml vitamin D levels each. By continent...
- Vitamin D may reduce your risk of colorectal cancer: maintaining the...
- Magazine article from: Healthy Years April 1, 2007 700+ words
...control group of 913. A vitamin D level of 33 nanograms...millimeter (ng/ml) or higher was associated...the serum level of vitamin D to 34 ng/ml would reduce the incidence...levels of 46 ng/ml, which corresponds...intake of 2,000 IU of vitamin D." The U.S...
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- Magazine article from: Clinical Psychiatry News Jancin, Bruce March 1, 2008 700+ words
...telomere length between women in the lowest tertile, who had a mean serum vitamin D of 41 ng/mL, and those in the top tertile, where serum vitamin D averaged 124 ng/mL, was 107 base pairs. That's the equivalent of 5 years of telomeric aging...
