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Prevalence and risk factors of vitamin D deficiency in patients with widespread musculoskeletal pain [PDF]

, 2013
Objective: Vitamin D deficiency is a worldwide common health problems. Vitamin D deficiency in adults has been associated with proximal muscle weakness, skeletal mineralization defect, and an increased risk of falling.
Hakan Sarı, İlhan Karacan, Muharrem Çidem, Murat Özkaya, Seher Kara   +4 more
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Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency in Patients With Hip Fracture Seen in an Orthogeriatric Service in Sunny Singapore

Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation, 2014
Background: Vitamin D deficiency is common in older adults in Western countries with seasonal winters, when the amount of sunlight is much reduced. There is a paucity of data on the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in patients with hip fracture in ...
Rani Ramason MBChB, MRCP, DGM, FAMS, Natesan Selvaganapathi MBBS, DA, MD, MRCP, FAMS, Noor Hafizah Binte Ismail MBBS, MRCP, FAMS, Wei Chin Wong MBBS, MRCP, FAMS, Ganesan Naidu Rajamoney MBBS, FRCS, FAMS, Mei Sian Chong MBBS, FRCP, FAMS   +5 more
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Evaluation of Obesity with Vitamin D Levels and Related Parameters

Erciyes Medical Journal, 2019
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between vitamin D levels, biochemical findings, and body analysis data of adult individuals, and effects of seasonal vitamin D level differences on these relationships. Materials and Methods: In
Aybike Gizem Kayacan, Neslihan Sürmeli, Mehtap Ünlü Söğüt, Elanur Yılmaz   +3 more
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Vitamin D deficiency and prognostics among patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among patients with cancer has been previously reported. Because vitamin D is fat soluble, patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma may have an especially high risk of vitamin D deficiency in association ...
Chen, Ling, Cho, May, Ding, Kevin, Lockhart, Albert C, Peddi, Parvin F, Tan, Benjamin, Thomas, Denise, Wang, Jian, Wang-Gillam, Andrea   +8 more
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A reviewed approach to vitamin D supplementation in pediatric age in Portugal

Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics
Vitamin D deficiency is a well-established cause of rickets in children and has been reported as associated to impacts on other systems and organs. Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency are pediatric worldwide global health problems.
Carla Rêgo, Gonçalo Cordeiro-Ferreira, Maria J. Lages-Fonseca, Mariana Moura-Relvas, Ricardo Ferreira, Sofia Pinto-da Costa   +5 more
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Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency in Treatment-Naïve Subjects with Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis

Journal of Fungi, 2020
The association of vitamin D deficiency in the pathogenesis of invasive and allergic pulmonary aspergillosis is known. Whether vitamin D deficiency is prevalent in chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) remains unknown.
Inderpaul Singh Sehgal, Sahajal Dhooria, Kuruswamy Thurai Prasad, Valliappan Muthu, Naresh Sachdeva, Sanjay Kumar Bhadada, Ashutosh Nath Aggarwal, Mandeep Garg, Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Ritesh Agarwal   +9 more
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Machine learning for identifying liver and pancreas cancers through comprehensive serum glycopeptide spectra analysis: a case‐control study

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study presents a novel AI‐based diagnostic approach—comprehensive serum glycopeptide spectra analysis (CSGSA)—that integrates tumor markers and enriched glycopeptides from serum. Using a neural network model, this method accurately distinguishes liver and pancreatic cancers from healthy individuals.
Motoyuki Kohjima, Yuko Takami, Ken Kawabe, Kazuhiro Tanabe, Chihiro Hayashi, Mikio Mikami, Tetsuya Kusumoto   +6 more
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Risk factors for vitamin D deficiency among HIV-infected and uninfected injection drug users. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
INTRODUCTION:Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent and is associated with bone disease, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome and malignancy. Injection drug users (IDUs), with or without HIV infection, are at risk for these conditions; however ...
Allison A Lambert, M Bradley Drummond, Shruti H Mehta, Todd T Brown, Gregory M Lucas, Gregory D Kirk, Michelle M Estrella   +6 more
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Vitamin D deficiency in Malawian adults with pulmonary tuberculosis : risk factors and treatment outcomes [PDF]

, 2015
The study was supported by a Wellcome Trust (London, UK) Clinical PhD Fellowship awarded to DS (086757/Z/08/A) and the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust (MLW) Core grant from the Wellcome Trust.SETTING: Vitamin D deficiency is common in African adults with
Allain, T. J., Chisale, B., Davies, G. R., Dutton, J., Kamdolozi, M., Khoo, S. H., Mwandumba, H. C., Shani, D., Sloan, Derek James   +8 more
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The critical role of DNA damage‐inducible transcript 4 (DDIT4) in stemness character of leukemia cells and leukemia initiation

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Stemness properties, including quiescence, self‐renewal, and chemoresistance, are closely associated with leukemia relapse. Here, we demonstrate that DNA damage‐inducible transcript 4 (DDIT4) is induced in the hypoxic bone marrow niche and is essential for maintaining the stemness of AML1‐ETO9a leukemia cells.
Yishuang Li, Zhijie Cao, Haiyan Xing, Zhenya Xue, Wenbing Liu, Jiayuan Chen, Yihan Mei, Runxia Gu, Hui Wei, Shaowei Qiu, Min Wang, Qing Rao, Jianxiang Wang   +12 more
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