ArticleOsteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA2005
The relationship of vitamin D status to bone mineral density in an Italian population of postmenopausal women.
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- Vitamin D status and its associations with bone mineral density, bone turnover markers, and parathyroid hormone in Chinese postmenopausal women with osteopenia and osteoporosis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Absence of causal association between Vitamin D and bone mineral density across the lifespan: a Mendelian randomization study.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- The Effect of Education and Vitamin D Supplementation on the Achievement of Optimal Vitamin D Level in Korean Postmenopausal Women.Journal of bone metabolism · 2019Article
- The Role of Vitamin D in Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Assessing Therapeutic and Preventive Potential of Supplementation and Food Fortification.Food technology and biotechnology · 2018Review
- Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D status among Saudi children with and without a history of fracture.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2016Article
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- Association between vitamin D and bone mineral density in Iranian postmenopausal women.Journal of bone and mineral metabolism · 2008Article
- Vitamin D inadequacy in Belgian postmenopausal osteoporotic women.BMC public health · 2007Article
- Low vitamin D, and bone mineral density with depressive symptoms burden in menopausal and postmenopausal women.Journal of mid-life healthArticle
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Abstract
Several authors have found a relationship between vitamin D status and bone mineral density (BMD). To our knowledge, no previous studies on this topic have been carried out on the Italian postmenopausal population. We studied this relationship retrospectively in 156 Italian postmenopausal women. We also investigated the relationship between parathyroid hormone (PTH) and BMD. Measurements of BMD were taken at the lumbar spine and upper femur by dual X-ray absorptiometry. Serum 25(OH)D (calcidiol), 1,25(OH)2D (calcitriol), PTH, calcium, phosphorus, creatinine, osteocalcin and urinary calcium and phosphorus were measured according to the current laboratory methods of analysis. We found a positive statistically significant correlation between BMD, both at the spine and hip, and 25(OH)D, and a negative statistically significant correlation between BMD and PTH. No statistically significant correlation was found between BMD and 1,25(OH)2D. Crude logistic regression showed age, 25(OH)D and PTH were significant predictors of low BMD, while 1,25(OH)2D was not. Backward logistic regression showed 25(OH)D was the best predictive model for spine osteoporosis together with age, and on its own it was the best predictive model for femoral neck osteoporosis.
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