Pages tagged with "Middle East"

151 pages, most important first (overviews, then meta-analyses, then RCTs, then newest). Combine with another topic

• Overview Middle East and vitamin D
• India and vitamin D - many studies
• Two thirds of South Asians have low Vitamin D (less than 20 ng) – meta-analysis
• Very low Vitamin D in Indian pregnancies– 1 in 3 women not even have 20 ng – meta-analysis
• Migrants from Middle East are slightly more vitamin D deficient than those from Africa - meta-analysis
• Much more than 2,000 IU of vitamin D is needed daily (Middle East studies agree) – meta-analysis
• Obese taking 50,000 IU of vitamin D weekly lost more weight (again) – RCT
• Atopic dermatitis dramatically reduced in Iran with 1600 IU of vitamin D – RCT
• All preteen aged girls in India taking 2,000 IU of vitamin D got levels above 20 ng – RCT
• Preeclampsia recurrence reduced 2 X by 50,000 IU of vitamin D every two weeks – RCT
• Adding 4,000 IU of vitamin D daily at 20 weeks pregnancy not help much – RCT
• 7100 IU (50000 weekly) got most women to 30 ng of vitamin D
• ADHD in Arab countries – vitamin D is the only changeable risk factor – review
• Vitamin A deficiency in more than 30% of children in some Middle Eastern and African countries
• Review of Vitamin D Deficiencies in developing countries
• SDR42E1 (Vitamin D gene) can greatly reduce Vitamin D from the sun and gut
• Depression cost-effectively reduced by 50,000 IU of Vitamin D monthly (Iranian teens)
• More brands of Calcitriol plus Calcium than Cholecalciferol (Vit D) in India, both have huge price ranges
• Death rate 2X higher at age 60 if low vitamin D - 180,000 in Israel
• Diabetes prevented by 50,000 IU vitamin D monthly (Iran)
• Vitamin D sachets in India – fewer than a third had the stated amount
• More hijab clothing may have resulted in 6X increase in Multiple Sclerosis in Tehran
• Infertile women had less Vitamin D (Baghdad in this case)
• Vitamin D genes vary with UVB in Europe, Africa, Asia
• Middle East and Vitamin D
• 2.5 X more health compaints in children and youths if low vitamin D
• Mortality reduced if Vitamin D levels raised to 30 ng ( Middle East this time) - Grant
• Vitamin D Conference – 9th Abu Dhabi
• Summer SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) – Middle East
• Low vitamin D is big problem during pregnancies (Saudi Arabia in this case)
• COVID 3X more likely if a poor Receptor (cells get less Vitamin D from the blood)
• Poor sleep associated with low Vitamin D (pregnant Saudis in the case)
• Vitamin D levels increased in Saudi Arabia over a decade (more sun or supplements)
• Arab preterm infants often have less than 10 ng of vitamin D - 2010
• Vitamin D helps some child health problems in Pakistan
• Long-Haul COVID after 3 months – only 5 percent had even 30 ng of Vitamin D
• Concealing Clothing in Canada: half the level of vitamin D in blood
• Rickets reduced 60X - lessons learned by Turkey 2011
• Turkey gave 400 IU vitamin D to all infants and reduced Rickets by 60X - 2011
• Why India's vitamin D deficiency is grim - 40 pages
• 85 ng of vitamin D in soldiers deployed to sunny Afghanistan
• Infants have gotten free 400 IU of vitamin D in Turkey since 2005, More for longer would be even better
• Saudi females twice as likely to be vitamin D deficient as males (cloth)
• Weak bones (Osteopenia) in 93 percent of women in Pakistan attending University and wearing Islamic clothes
• Concealing clothing resulted in only 8 ng vitamin D
• Jordanian women vitamin D – 16 ng if Western clothing – 12 ng otherwise
• COVID-19 increased 3.5 X if Ultra-Orthodox (cloth) Sept, 2020
• 400 IU of vitamin D helped a few adults (Orthodox Jewish mothers - heavy clothing) – 2001
• Need 1 hour of noon sun to get Hijab women to 20 ng of Vitamin D (cloth)
• Burka clothing reduces vitamin D levels, which causes pregnancy problems
• Ultra-orthodox Jews also suffer from 10 ng vitamin D levels (cloth)
• 450,000 IU of vitamin D over 9 weeks given to 100,000 teenage Iranian girls helped their livers
• Miraculous Physiological Activities of Vitamin D (30 to 100 ng)
• Vitamin D has eliminated ICU COVID-19 in hospital in Dubai since June
• Iran Multiple Sclerosis review finds huge increase in women (no mention of clothing)
• Vitamin D levels from lowest to highest: Middle East, China. India, S EU. N EU
• Doctors not consistent on prescribing Vitamin D (Pakistan in this case)
• Vitamin D deficiency is a major global public health problem – Maps
• 96 percent of Iranian children have low vitamin D and markers of metabolic syndrome
• Iranian low vitamin D levels have been increasing
• Saudi study defines normal Vitamin D level to be 50 to 70 ng (diabetes, etc.)
• 1 in 6 critically ill in India have high levels of vitamin D (100 ng)
• Vitamin D deficiency 4X more likely if illiterate or have bone pain – Lahore Pakistan
• Hospital COVID-19 observation: 7X more likely to live if more than 20 ng of vitamin D
• 60,000 IU dose of VItamin D (weekly, monthly) is popular in India
• Vitamin D added to cooking oil increased D by 9 ng improved health (Iran)
• Vitamin D fortification of edible oils in India starting in 2017
• Swedish TV Warns 'Dark-Skinned' People, Muslims of Vitamin D Deficiency
• Middle Eastern women living in Sweden 23X higher risk to be anxious if low vitamin D
• Turkey needs to give Vitamin D to children too (infants get D for free)
• Children in India – 1 in 7 extremely low Vitamin D, 1 in 10 prediabetic
• 76 percent of young adults in western India had less than 20 ng of vitamin D
• Type II Diabetes in children in India increased 4 X in 20 years
• Elderly Influenza deaths do not increase in winter in countries with high vitamin D levels
• Vitamin D deficiency in Middle East and North Africa
• International Conference of Vitamin D Fortification of Food (India)
• Universal pregnancy vitamin D supplementation for a hospital in India – study stopped after 1 month
• Preterm labor 20 times more likely if low vitamin D, etc. (India)
• Women wearing hijab in tropics need at least 1 hour noon sun daily in summer
• Obesity strongly associated with vitamin D receptor in Saudia Arabia
• Rickets in 30 percent of infants in India who had low vitamin D
• Vitamin D Receptor, the gut, the immune system, and the Middle East
• Vitamin D level of outdoor workers in India was only 18 ng
• Vitamin D levels in Iran increasing somewhat since 2001
• International Conference on Vitamin D Deficiency – 8th Abu Dhabi
• International Conference on Vitamin D Deficiency – 4th Abu Dhabi
• Mandatory Vitamin D screening for all patients – vitamin D conference in Middle East
• International Symposium on Vitamin D Deficiency - Abu Dhabi
• Vitamin D Conference – Abu Dhabi
• Low levels of Vitamin D in UAE juveniles (virtually none had 30 ng)
• Fetal femur bone length associated with maternal vitamin D
• Pregnant Arab women 25 X more likely to have low vitamin D if indoors a lot
• Top 5 health concerns of women in UAE (all have been treated by Vitamin D)
• Backache strongly associated with low vitamin D
• Low vitamin D in 92 percent in Bahrain hospital
• Saudi infants – 4 in 10 have low Vitamin D, 8 in 10 have low Calcium (hypocalcemia)
• Extreme Vitamin D deficiency in most low middle income countries which had studies
• Avoid the hot sun and thus vitamin D in the Middle East
• Professional soccer players in region with very hot sun – 89 percent low vitamin D
• Young Israeli athletes and dancers had just 25 ng of vitamin D
• 400 IU vitamin D appeared to prevent infant rickets in Turkey
• Nutritional rickets. In Turkey – 2010
• Turkey prescribed 400 IU for all infants, with loading dose for those with rickets – 2005
• Asthma strongly related to vitamin D deficiency in Turkey
• 33 percent of pregnant women in Turkey had undetectable vitamin D levels
• Vitamin D levels in Israel vs skin type and age
• People in Louisiana may be avoiding the hot sun like those in Middle East
• Took 4 months of 400 IU vitamin D for Iranian infants to get serum level of 30 ng
• 1 in 4 Iranian patients did not achieve 20 ng with 3700 IU vitamin D daily for a year after fracture
• Lower Magnesium associated with lower Vitamin D in Iranian teens
• Turkey recommended 1200 IU Vitamin D during pregnancy, only 1 in 7 took more than 1,000 IU
• Saudi pregnancies – only 1 in 16 had even 20 nanograms of vitamin D
• Ethnicity and low vitamin D levels during pregnancy
• Vitamin D deficiency a big problem in Pakistan, similar to India
• Vitamin D given to ALL high schools girls in Iran – 75 percent deficiency dropped to 6 percent
• MS new cases increased 2.5X in 2 years in Isfahan Iran
• 70 pcnt of Saudi women were extremely vitamin D deficient, but only 40 pcnt of men
• Painful to be a female Saudi teacher (very low vitamin D)
• Diabetes in Saudi women improved with just 2,000 IU of vitamin D
• Yet again – vitamin D levels very low in sunny Saudia Arabia
• Newborns in sunny Jordan have very low Vitamin D (histogram)
• 23 ng of vitamin D in sunny Israel
• Iran giving seniors 5,000 IU of vitamin D - monthly unfortunately
• Turkey has yet not learned to GIVE vitamin D DURING pregnancy (5 ng average)
• Metabolic Syndrome reduced 2X after one year of more sunlight
• 80 percent of young adults had low vitamin D tests in Mumbai India - 2011
• Hypothesis: Why so many females in the Middle East are now Vitamin D Deficient
• Only takes 10 minutes of sun to make a month’s worth of vitamin D while wearing the Hijab (NOT)
• 84 percent had less than 30 ng of vitamin D (10,000 patients in Saudi Arabia)
• VPS Healthcare in Abu Dhabi invested million dollars in Vitamin D research
• Premenopausal Breast Cancer 10X more likely if total body coverage (Iran) – 2014
• Military in hot climates and vitamin D deficiency - 2010
• Osteopenia in 25 % of 40 year olds in UAE (low vitamin D)
• Excessive clothes and being indoors results in very low vitamin D levels
• Vitamin D deficiency in Rheumatology clinics in Iran (D increases with age)
• Is the Iranian Revolution to Blame for the Increasing Incidence of Multiple Sclerosis in Iran
• Middle East women have low vitamin D levels, almost independent of dress style
• Hypovitaminosis D in the Middle East and North Africa
• Vitamin D in blood is higher in winter than summer – in Middle-East
• Vitamin D levels in the Middle East: very low, especially in summer
• Arabs have even lower levels of vitamin D than Jews in sunny Israel
• Majority of infant seizures in India due to lack of vitamin D
• Very poor knowledge of vitamin D deficiency, even after diagnosis in Kuwait
• Abu Dhabi 2012 - Haq
• Vitamin D deficiency (less than 14 ng) all seasons in Iran – 2011
• Red Alert – one in three pre-teens in Tehran had less than 5 ng of vitamin D
• Osteoporosis increasing and vitamin D decreasing in Middle East
• Iranian vitamin D levels 13 ng summer, 12 ng winter
• Only 19 percent of Turkish mothers had normal levels of vitamin D – 2009
• Parkinson disease increased in Israel by 50 percent in 7 years
• Even in Sunny Areas, Vitamin D Intake Often Too Low