Vitamin D deficiency common in patients with lung disease
A new study from Korea has uncovered a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as well as a significant relationship between vitamin…
April 23, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: copd, high-prevalence, korea, new-study, nutritional counseling, on call diets, pulmonary-disease
Vitamin B12 Deficiency Prevalent Among Refugees
New research from the University of Adelaide has discovered a high prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency among refugees, prompting calls for refugees to be routinely screened for the problem soon after they arrive. Vitamin B12 deficiency is a sign of severe malnourishment and can result in permanent damage to the nervous system…
March 6, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: adelaide, diet, from-the-university, high-prevalence, nervous, nutrition / diet, permanent-damage, problem, problem-soon, prompting-calls, routinely-screened, severe-malnourishment, the-nervous, university
Vitamin D Insufficiency Prevalent Among Psoriatic Arthritis Suffers
New research reports a high prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency among patients with psoriatic arthritis. Seasonal variation in vitamin D levels was not observed in patients in southern or northern locations…
July 11, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: among-patients, arthritis / rheumatology, high-prevalence, not-observed, nutrition, on call diets, oncalldiets, research-reports, southern-or-northern
Vitamin D Insufficiency High Among Patients With Early Parkinson Disease
Patients with a recent onset of Parkinson disease have a high prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency, but vitamin D concentrations do not appear to decline during the progression of the disease, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Vitamin D is now considered a hormone that regulates a number of physiological processes…
March 14, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: archives, decline-during, disease, high-prevalence, jama, neurology, now-considered, nutritional counseling, parkinson, parkinson's disease, progression, recent-onset, the-disease, the-progression