AIMC Topic: Prevalence

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Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and metabolic syndrome in a Japanese working population: The Furukawa Nutrition and Health Study.

Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
OBJECTIVE: Increasing evidence has suggested a protective role of vitamin D on metabolic syndrome (MetS). However, studies addressing this issue are limited in Asia and it remains unclear whether calcium could modify the association. We examined the ...

Dietary pattern, serum magnesium, ferritin, C-reactive protein and anaemia among older people.

Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland)
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Epidemiological data of dietary patterns and anaemia among older Chinese remains extremely scarce. We examined the association between dietary patterns and anaemia in older Chinese, and to assess whether biomarkers of serum magnesi...

Erythropoiesis-stimulating Agents and Anemia in Patients with Non-dialytic Chronic Kidney Disease.

Journal of Korean medical science
Anemia is common in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD). Though erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) have been strongly endorsed in guidelines, it is of particular financial interest. Recently, the reimbursement of ESAs in non-dia...

Low vitamin D level in pediatric patients with new onset type 1 diabetes is common, especially if in ketoacidosis.

Pediatric diabetes
BACKGROUND: Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) adversely affects bone health. US data on prevalence of VDD or vitamin D insufficiency (VDI) at diagnosis of type 1 diabetes (T1D) is lacking. Low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) is speculated to increase the ...

Vitamin D status in relation to Crohn's disease: Meta-analysis of observational studies.

Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
OBJECTIVES: Inconsistent findings have been published regarding vitamin D status among patients with Crohn's disease (CD) and the association with disease severity. We aimed to perform a meta-analysis evaluating serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D and 1,25 de...

Multidimensional approach to iron deficiency anemia in infants younger than two years old in Northeast Argentina. 2004-2005.

Archivos argentinos de pediatria
INTRODUCTION: The prevalence of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is high among infants younger than two years old, especially in disadvantaged populations.

Intestinal helminth infections amongst HIV-infected adults in Mthatha General Hospital, South Africa.

African journal of primary health care & family medicine
BACKGROUND: In South Africa, studies on the prevalence of intestinal helminth co-infection amongst HIV-infected patients as well as possible interactions between these two infection sare limited.

Vitamin D status in youth with type 1 and type 2 diabetes enrolled in the Pediatric Diabetes Consortium (PDC) is not worse than in youth without diabetes.

Pediatric diabetes
OBJECTIVE: To describe vitamin D levels and prevalence of vitamin D sufficiency, insufficiency and deficiency in a large, ethnically/racially diverse population of youth with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) in comparison to national d...

Relationship between vitamin D status and vascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Nutrition research (New York, N.Y.)
We aimed to investigate the association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) and microvascular complications in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients. It was hypothesized that lower 25(OH)D would be associated with increased microvascular c...