ArticleJournal of bone metabolism2018
Maintenance Dose of Vitamin D: How Much Is Enough?
Article in Journal of bone metabolism, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Effects of vitamin D and calcium supplementation on bone mineral density among Thai youth using daily HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2020Trial
- The impact of vitamin D supplementation on VDR gene expression and body composition in monozygotic twins: randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2020Trial
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- Schemes for Drug-Induced Treatment of Osteonecrosis of Jaws with Particular Emphasis on the Influence of Vitamin D on Therapeutic Effects.Pharmaceutics · 2021Review
- Osteoporosis: Is the prevalence increasing in Saudi Arabia.Annals of African medicineArticle
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Abstract
backgroundIt is still unclear the ideal vitamin D dosage once the deficiency and insufficiency is treated. Once deficiency was corrected we prospectively treated patients with 2,000 IU of vitamin D3 to check whether this dosage is enough to keep them above the 30 ng/mL of 25-hydroxy-vitamin D (25[OH]D).
methodsOne hundred and thirty-five Saudi Arabian men and women treatment naïve for the vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency were part of this study. History and clinical examination were done to rule out any metabolic bone disease. Weight and height was taken to calculate the body mass index (BMI). Patients who were vitamin D deficient (≥30 ng/mL), a standard treatment of 50,000 IU of vitamin D3 weekly for 3 months, a blood test for the vitamin D levels at the end of 3 months, maintenance dose of 2,000 IU of vitamin D3 for 3 months and a third blood sample after 3 months.
resultsThe data for 128 patients was available for analysis. The average age was 44.95±12.97 years with the mean BMI of 29.60±2.59 kg/m
conclusionsOur study indicates that the maintenance dose of 2,000 IU of vitamin D is not enough for patients to keep the 25(OH)D levels above 30 ng/mL.
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