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How much vitamin D should I take?

Publication ,  Journal Article
Colón-Emeric, CS; Lyles, KW
Published in: J Clin Invest
May 2012

Clinical vignette: A 68-year-old woman consults you after a recent bone mineral density screening revealed osteopenia, total hip T score of –1.8. Further evaluation shows her only other abnormal lab value is a serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] level of 13 ng/ml (normal 30–80). You find no evidence of malabsorption. What vitamin D supplement regimen should you recommend to reduce her risk of fractures?

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Published In

J Clin Invest

DOI

EISSN

1558-8238

Publication Date

May 2012

Volume

122

Issue

5

Start / End Page

1598 / 1599

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Vitamins
  • Vitamin D
  • Nutrition Policy
  • Immunology
  • Humans
  • Clinical Trials as Topic
  • Bone Diseases, Metabolic
  • Animals
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
 

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Colón-Emeric, C. S., & Lyles, K. W. (2012). How much vitamin D should I take? J Clin Invest, 122(5), 1598–1599. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci62966
Colón-Emeric, Cathleen S., and Kenneth W. Lyles. “How much vitamin D should I take?J Clin Invest 122, no. 5 (May 2012): 1598–99. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci62966.
Colón-Emeric CS, Lyles KW. How much vitamin D should I take? J Clin Invest. 2012 May;122(5):1598–9.
Colón-Emeric, Cathleen S., and Kenneth W. Lyles. “How much vitamin D should I take?J Clin Invest, vol. 122, no. 5, May 2012, pp. 1598–99. Pubmed, doi:10.1172/jci62966.
Colón-Emeric CS, Lyles KW. How much vitamin D should I take? J Clin Invest. 2012 May;122(5):1598–1599.

Published In

J Clin Invest

DOI

EISSN

1558-8238

Publication Date

May 2012

Volume

122

Issue

5

Start / End Page

1598 / 1599

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Vitamins
  • Vitamin D
  • Nutrition Policy
  • Immunology
  • Humans
  • Clinical Trials as Topic
  • Bone Diseases, Metabolic
  • Animals
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences