ArticleInternational journal of spine surgery2022
Prevalence and Significance of Vitamin D Deficiency in Patients Undergoing Corrective Surgery for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.
Article in International journal of spine surgery, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.
- Incidence of vitamin D deficiency in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Pooled it
- Review
- Back pain in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: frequency and risk factors.Spine deformity · 2024Article
- Current concepts in the diagnosis and management of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2020Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundThe exact etiology of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is unknown, but recently, vitamin D has been suggested to be of importance in the pathophysiology of AIS. This article sought to (1) highlight the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in patients undergoing corrective surgery for AIS within the United Kingdom and (2) evaluate the correlation and clinical relevance of preoperative back pain with vitamin D deficiency.
methodsData were collected on 201 consecutive patients undergoing corrective surgery for AIS. Baseline data included patient demographics, medical diagnoses, and standing preoperative Cobb angles. All patients had a preoperative 25-hydroxyvitamin D level recorded. One hundred ninety-six patients completed preoperative Scoliosis Research Society-22 outcome scores to quantify preoperative back pain.
resultsA total of 177 (89%) patients were young women, and the mean age at time of surgery was 14.9 years (13-18 years). All patients were diagnosed with AIS. The mean Cobb angles at time of surgery was 64°. Only 11 (5.5%) patients had "normal" vitamin D levels (>75 nmol/L), with 147 (74%) patients having deficient levels requiring treatment with supplementation. There was no correlation between vitamin D levels and preoperative Cobb angles (
conclusionVitamin D deficiency is common in patients with AIS; however, it is comparable to the national prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in healthy adolescent children. There was a strong correlation between preoperative back pain scores and the severity of vitamin D deficiency. These findings suggest that all patients with AIS should be screened for vitamin D deficiency and that supplementation where appropriate may lead to improved pain scores. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: If vitamin D is prevelant and if vitamin D deficiency is found to cause back pain, then there is an easy/cheap/safe treatement with supplementation. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: 3:
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.