Abstract Number: 2172 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Depression of Vitamin D Levels After Adult Primary Posterior Spinal Fusion: Are We Adding Insult to Injury?
Background/Purpose: Vitamin D is a steroid hormone metabolized to its active form in the presence of parathyroid hormone in the kidney. Vitamin D is essential…Abstract Number: 2226 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Factors Contributing to Fracture in Pernicious Anemia Patients Presenting with Symptomatic Subacute Vertebral Compression Fractures
Background/Purpose: Pernicious anemia (PA) has been associated with both low spine BMD and increased fracture risk in retrospective cohort studies. The cause of these observations…Abstract Number: 2328 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Current Factors Associated with Insufficient Vitamin D Status in Patients with Osteoporosis
Background/Purpose: In 2010, the Canadian Osteoporosis guidelines recommended that patients with osteoporosis be supplemented with vitamin D and to achieve serum levels ≥75nmol/L. Past studies,…Abstract Number: 2231 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Vitamin D Deficiency States Can be Actively Prevented. Results from a Cross-Sectional Study of over 3000 Patients with Rheumatic Diseases
Background/Purpose: Vitamin D (D25) deficiency has been an ongoing matter of concern, especially in countries at northern latitudes. The effects of D25 deficiency in patients…Abstract Number: 2559 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Vitamin D insufficiency and Deficiency in Two European Cohorts of Patients with Inflammatory Rheumatic Disorders
Background/Purpose Vitamin D plays an important role in the modulation of immune system and epidemiologic data indicate low vitamin D levels in autoimmune diseases such…Abstract Number: 1242 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Prospective Randomized Open Label Trial To Evaluate The Effect Of Food On Vitamin D Absorption
Background/Purpose: Vitamin D deficiency is commonplace throughout the world and is associated with a number of health related consequences. Being a fat-soluble vitamin, speculation has…Abstract Number: 2014 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Serum 25(OH)D Levels in Adolescents and Young Adults with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and Juvenile Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Prevalence and Association with Disease Activity
Background/Purpose: Numerous data are available in literature on 25 (OH)D serum levels in general population, few and contradictory in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA), and scarce…Abstract Number: 1957 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Prevalence and Associated Factors of Vitamin D Insufficiency and Deficiency in 4,793 Japanese Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Vitamin D (25[OH]D) insufficiency and deficiency is reported to be common in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and is associated with increased disease activity…Abstract Number: 442 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Joint Effects of Known Genetic Markers of Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk and 25-Hydroxyvitamin D On Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a complex disease with both genetic and environmental risk factors. A number of susceptibility genes have been identified. Past studies…