Vitamin D & Vitamin D Deficiency Links

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• Patients with the lowest blood levels of vitamin D were about two times more likely to die from any cause during the next eight years than those with the highest levels, the study found.

Those with low vitamin D twice as likely to die

• The American Medical Association (AMA), the nation’s largest physician organization, voted today at its Annual Meeting to adopt the following new public health policy.

Appropriate Supplementation Of Vitamin D

• Pain is the most common complaint leading patients to seek medical care and much of it is chronic, lasting 3 months or longer. According to an extensive review of clinical research in a new report from Pain Treatment Topics, inadequate vitamin D intake has been linked to a long list of chronic painful maladies, including bone and joint pain of various types, muscle pain, fibromyalgia syndrome, rheumatic disorders, osteoarthritis, and other complaints.

Aches? Pains? An Extra Dose Of Vitamin D May Provide Relief

• Men with low levels of vitamin D have an elevated risk for a heart attack, researchers said on Monday in the latest study to identify important possible health benefits from the “sunshine vitamin.”

Vitamin D may prevent heart attacks in men

• An article published in the June 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine reports that men who have low levels of vitamin D are at a higher risk of heart attack (myocardial infarction).

Vitamin D May Help Prevent Heart Attacks

• People with a vitamin D deficiency are as much as twice as likely to die compared to people whose blood contains higher amounts of the so-called sunshine vitamin, Austrian researchers said on Monday.

Study shows more benefits of sunshine vitamin

• Vitamin D insufficiency is common in adults and is emerging in the world of pediatrics. A mild degree of vitamin D deficiency, also known as vitamin D insufficiency, causes rickets in children and can be treated with increased amount of nutritional vitamin D intake as well as increased sun exposure.

First Study To Examine Vitamin D Insufficiency In Pediatric Patients With Low Bone Density

• Adolescents can safely take, and may need, vitamin D doses that are up to 10 times what is generally recommended, a small study suggests.

Vitamin D recommendations for teens may be too low

• Softening of the skull bones in normal-looking babies might reflect vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy, according to a new study. Furthermore, breast-feeding without vitamin D supplementation could prolong the deficiency, which might lead to a risk of serious health problems later in life, including type 1 diabetes and decreased bone density.

Vitamin D Deficiency May Be To Blame For Soft Bones In Baby’s Skull

• Nearly three quarters of patients seen at a rheumatology clinic, which focuses on diseases affecting the joints, muscles, bones, and tendons, have a vitamin D deficiency, researchers based in Ireland found.

Low vitamin D common with rheumatic diseases

• The news today that some 40 percent of infants and toddlers have vitamin D deficiency should make parents listen up and take action. Vitamin D is vital for healthy bone development, and breast-fed babies don’t get enough from their mother’s milk. They also aren’t producing enough from sunlight—the best source of vitamin D; pediatricians currently advise parents not to take kids into the sunny outdoors without first applying sunscreen or putting up the hood on the stroller.

Vitamin D Deficiency Common in Babies

• Susan Tellem learned she was vitamin D deficient by accident. “I went in for an allergy issue, and a blood test showed my vitamin D was at an all-time low,” says Tellem, 62, of Malibu, Calif.

Adults still risk vitamin D deficiency

• John Cannell, MD, founder of the Vitamin D Council is a tireless champion for Vitamin D research. He understands, like a growing number of scientists do, how devastating vitamin D deficiency is to our overall health. His website, vitamindcouncil.org is a virtual mega resource for vitamin D research, information on diseases related to deficiencies, the physiology of vitamin D, treatment for deficiencies and much much more.

Are You Vitamin D Deficient?

• You are female, over 50, post-menopausal and you keep breaking bones. In fact, you need a hip or knee replacement. The diagnosis? Most likely, your problem will be blamed on osteoporosis.

Broken Bones Blamed on Osteoporosis When Vitamin D Deficiency Is the Culprit

• Many young children do not get enough vitamin D, an often invisible deficiency that can show up later as broken bones or a weakened immune system prone to disease, researchers said on Monday.

Widespread vitamin D deficiency poses risk-US study

• Vitamin D deficiency is common among women diagnosed with breast cancer, and it may raise the risk of cancer spread and death, researchers report. In a new study, women with vitamin D deficiency at the time of breast cancer diagnosis were 94% more likely to experience cancer spread and 73% more likely to die over the next 10 years, compared to women with adequate vitamin D levels.

Vitamin D Deficiency Worsens Breast Cancer?

Patients with active tuberculosis are more likely to be vitamin D deficient than the rest of the population. New research, presented at the annual Society for Endocrinology BES meeting in Harrogate, shows that the majority of patients with tuberculosis (TB) have low levels of vitamin D, leading to the possibility that vitamin D supplementation could reinforce current treatments or be used as a preventative measure against tuberculosis.

Vitamin D Deficiency Linked To Tuberculosis