Unicode SystemsDeficiency of Vitamin D common among a variety of rheumatic conditions
According to two new studies, deficiency of Vitamin D is common in patients with a variety of rheumatic diseases.
Dr. L. Idolazzi, of the Rheumatology Unit, University of Verona, Italy, said that patients with a wide range of rheumatic diseases usually experience deficiency of vitamin D, a fact that was disclosed after making use of several clinically accepted measures of disease activity.
From in.news.yahoo.com:
A further study assessing response to vitamin D supplementation found that taking the recommended daily dose did not normalise vitamin D levels in rheumatic disease patients.
“We have seen in studies that vitamin D deficiency is common in patients with a range of rheumatic diseases, and our results have confirmed this using several clinically accepted measures of disease activity,” said Dr. L. Idolazzi, of the Rheumatology Unit, University of Verona, Italy.
“What we need to see now is a range of long term studies, which examine the clinical response of patients to vitamin D supplementation,” Idolazzi added.
Results of the three studies were presented recently at EULAR 2010, the Annual Congress of the European League against Rheumatism in Rome, Italy.
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