Bone and Mineral Disorders News

• Hyperparathyroidism in the Elderly Appears Undertreated Fewer than a third of elderly Medicare beneficiaries who may benefit from parathyroidectomy because of primary hyperparathyroidism actually receive such treatment, according to a population-based cohort study.
  Reuters Health Information, January 14, 2021
• Vitamin D Supplements Don't Impact Growth or Rickets in Stunted Children Children with stunted growth do not experience improved growth or a reduction in rickets risk by taking vitamin D supplements, a clinical trial suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, January 06, 2021
• Vitamin D Fails to Help in Severe COVID-19 Low vitamin D levels are linked with higher risk for severe COVID-19, but treatment that boosted vitamin D levels in critically ill COVID-19 patients did not shorten their hospital stay.
  Reuters Health Information, December 28, 2020
• Vitamin D Deficiency in COVID-19 Quadrupled Death Rate Patients admitted to hospital with severe COVID-19 and vitamin D deficiency showed a 3.7-fold increased odds of death. Men in the advanced stages of COVID-19 pneumonia had the greatest deficit.
  Medscape Medical News, December 11, 2020
• To D or Not to D? Vitamin D Doesn't Reduce Falls in Older Adults A study of wide-ranging vitamin D dosing finds no reduction in risk of falls, while high doses may even increase risk. But editorialist says check levels in the frail and give vitamin D, if needed.
  Medscape Medical News, December 09, 2020
• Vitamin D Supplement Improves Asthma Control in Adults With Deficiency Adults with asthma who also have vitamin D deficiency may achieve better asthma control when they take 25-hydroxycholecalciferol supplements, a clinical trial suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, November 23, 2020
• Intake of Vitamins A, E and D Tied to Respiratory Health Higher intakes of vitamin A, E and D are associated with better respiratory health, according to new findings.
  Reuters Health Information, November 03, 2020
• Glaring Gap Between Vit D Guidance and Practice in Care Homes Care home staff are not routinely giving residents Vitamin D supplements and wait for doctors to prescribe it, which rarely happens, public health experts find.
  Medscape Medical News, October 21, 2020
• CHEST 2020 Link Between Vitamin D and ICU Outcomes Unclear Vitamin D deficiency is an issue for many patients in the ICU, whether or not they have COVID-19, but high-dose infusions might not be the answer, according to one expert.
  Medscape Medical News, October 19, 2020
• More Evidence That Vitamin D Sufficiency Equals Less Severe COVID-19 The latest in a line of studies on vitamin D and COVID-19 supports a link between insufficiency and worse outcomes from the virus, but the jury remains out without robust, randomized controlled trials.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2020
• ASBMR 2020 Burosumab Is a 'Game Changer,' Effective in All Subgroups of XLH As in the overall phase 3 trial population, 24 weeks of burosumab treatment improved serum phosphorus and key measures of pain and stiffness in subgroups of adults with this rare form of inherited rickets.
  Medscape Medical News, September 22, 2020
• Low Free 25(OH)D Vitamin D Is Best Predictor of Mortality Free 25(OH)D is a stronger predictor of all-cause mortality than total 25(OH)D in older men. Free 1.25(OH)2D, the biologically active metabolite, was not predictive of all-cause mortality.
  Medscape Medical News, September 21, 2020
• ASBMR 2020 Low Vitamin D in COVID-19 Predicts ICU Admission, Poor Survival A study from Italy reports that patients who had severe COVID-19 had lower levels of vitamin D than patients with mild infections, and low vitamin D was an independent predictor of worse prognosis.
  Medscape Medical News, September 17, 2020
• ASBMR 2020 Mega Vitamin D Harms Bone in Women, Not Men, Without Osteoporosis 'More is not necessarily better...Our findings do not support a benefit of high-dose vitamin D supplementation for bone health and raise the possibility of harm for females,' say researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, September 14, 2020
• Vitamin D Deficiency May Boost COVID-19 Risk A new study links untreated vitamin D deficiency to an increased risk of testing positive for COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, September 04, 2020
• People With Chronic Pancreatitis Often Miss Bone-Health Tests People with chronic pancreatitis frequently go without recommended bone-health surveillance, new findings suggest.
  Reuters Health Information, September 01, 2020
• Vitamin D May Reduce Recurrence of Positional Vertigo Clinicians should consider the management of vitamin D deficiency in all patients with frequent attacks of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), researchers suggest.
  Medscape Medical News, August 06, 2020
• Fracture Risk Prediction: No Benefit to Repeat BMD Testing Measuring bone mineral density 3 years after a baseline assessment does not improve the accuracy of fracture risk prediction in healthy postmenopausal women, according to new research.
  Medscape Medical News, August 03, 2020
• Many Patients With Hyperparathyroidism Going Undiagnosed Many patients who have hyperparathyroidism may be missed because physicians aren't testing for it even when two indications for screening are present, a US study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, July 29, 2020
• COVID-19 Update: Low Vitamin D, Heart Damage After 'Recovery' These are the coronavirus stories you need to know about today.
  Medscape Medical News, July 29, 2020