Pages tagged with "Shut-in"

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

• Indoor athletes have 4.5 ng less Vitamin D (Asia in this case) – meta-analysis
• Low Vitamin D if little UVB, supplementation helps (Antarctica) – meta-analysis
• RDA of Vitamins and minerals reduced incarceration by 2,993 dollars per prisoner – RCT
• 1700 IU vitamin D (50000 monthly) helped antarctic explorers – RCT
• People who get little noon-day sun must supplement with Vitamin D – systematic review
• Spinal Cord
• 2000 IU daily raised vitamin D levels by 5 nanograms while on submarine patrol
• Submariners vitamin D levels continued to drop while on patrol (no surprise)
• Submariners need Vitamin D (no surprise) – Review
• Simulated Mars trip ran low on vitamin D (no supplements, no UV)
• NASA might save 700,000 dollars a day by giving astronauts enough Vitamin D
• Pressure Ulcers (bed sores) 1.87 more likely if vitamin D less than 25 ng – 2011
• COVID 5X more likely if in prison (low Vitamin D, etc)
• One group of coal miners had surprising high Vitamin D levels in Sept (suspect low-cost UVB)
• The only supplement NASA gives crews is vitamin D
• Recommended increasing vitamin D for space flight – NASA
• \"Sunlight Officers\" in some Australian senior facilities
• Nursing homes could reduce risk of COVID-19 with Vitamin D
• Prisoners have very low vitamin D and get TB, influenza, and depression
• Shut-in
• Spinal Cord Injury wheelchair athletes helped by 12 weeks of Vitamin D
• Radiologists are 1.7 X more likely to have low vitamin D (probably indoors too much)
• Black prisoners have lower vitamin D than whites in maximum security
• Children with limited mobility are at high risk of being vitamin D deficient
• Long-Term bedridden patients have poor vitamin D and poor bones
• NASA vitamin D deficiency treatment guidelines - 2013
• Antarctic Scientists got less than 150 IU of vitamin D daily
• People with health problems lacking noon sun (severe Multiple Sclerosis, etc.) have even lower levels of vitamin D
• Prisoners in psychiatric wards have very low levels of vitamin D
• Intellectually disabled 2X more likely to have low vitamin D (shut-in)
• Vitamin D supplementation can cost 50 dollars a day (live longer)
• Prison doctor on lack of vitamin D in solitary confinement
• People with no UV for 6 months in the winter need at least 2000 IU of vitamin D
• Dementia risk increases 60 percent if have low vitamin D
• Task force for senior fall prevention finally recommends 800 IU of vitamin D
• Lets go to the sunny beach, it is just down the hall
• 4.7X less likely to feed self in nursing home if vitamin D deficient
• Nursing home residents 2X more likely to die of some surgeries – perhaps lack vitamin D