Loyola Vitamin D Study Getting National Attention

Congratulations to Dr. Kramer and Dr. Ramon Durazo-Arvizu for their paper entitled “Mortality Rates Across 25 Hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) Levels among Adults with and without Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate < 60 ml/min/1.73 m²: The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.” 

The paper was co-authored by: Guichan Cao, Amy Luke, David Shoham, Richard Cooper, of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology at LoyolaUniversity Chicago, and Chris Sempos of the Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.

The Loyola team explored all-cause mortality rates across the spectrum of 25[OH]D levels over an eighteen-year follow-up among adults with and without an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) <60 ml/min/1.73 m2.

Previous studies exploring the association between 25[OH]D levels and mortality in adults with and without kidney disease utilized 25[OH]D thresholds that have recently been scrutinized by the Institute of Medicine Committee to Review Dietary References Intakes for Vitamin D and Calcium. 

The paper was recently published in PLOS ONE and is available for reading at http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0047458.

The Study has been garnering national attention and the story has been picked up by numerous news medias and medical reviews. See the list below:

See the Full article from NPR

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See the full article on Prevention.com