Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery
Oct 1, 2015
BACKGROUND: Vitamin D deficiency is common among obese patients presenting for bariatric surgery in Europe and North America. The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in this patient population in Lebanon and the Middle East has not been studied.
BACKGROUND: Cross-sectional studies have found an association between deficiencies in serum vitamin D, as measured by 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D), and an atherogenic lipid profile. These studies have focused on a limited panel of lipid values inclu...
European review for medical and pharmacological sciences
Nov 1, 2024
OBJECTIVE: End-stage renal disease (ESRD) commonly manifests with disrupted calcium balance, leading to renal osteodystrophy. We posited that variations in the genetic makeup of vitamin D and calcium-sensing receptors, specifically single nucleotide ...
Deep learning-based mammographic evaluations could noninvasively assess response to breast cancer chemoprevention. We evaluated change in a convolutional neural network-based breast cancer risk model applied to mammograms among women enrolled in SWOG...
Clinical manifestations related to hypomagnesemia and/or deficiency of vitamin D are frequent in patients with an extended course of coronavirus disease-2019 (long COVID). To evaluate hypomagnesemia and hydroxyvitamin D deficiency in patients with lo...
Zhonghua yu fang yi xue za zhi [Chinese journal of preventive medicine]
Dec 6, 2021
To establish vitamin D classification models for Chinese elderly using machine learning techniques. Based on the datasets of 2010-2012 Chinese nutrition and health surveillance, the basic information and physical exercise of the subjects were colle...
BACKGROUND: Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) and insufficiency (VDI) are public health problems in many countries, and limited data is available on the prevalence of VDD/VDI in Sri Lanka.
The aim of the study was to review the current literature on the role of vitamin D in dentistry. The term vitamin D is defined as a group of compounds which are cholesterol derivatives with a similar chemical structure. It is produced in the human bo...
Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University
Dec 1, 2017
BACKGROUND: Helicobacter pylori eradication therapy improves the healing of various gastro-duodenal diseases such as chronic gastritis and peptic ulcer, and also reduces gastric cancer incidence. Several studies have reported on risk factors other th...
OBJECTIVES: To determine the possible association of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) levels with disease activity and respiratory infection in granulomatosis with polyangiitis patients during two different periods: winter/spring and summer/autumn.