Pages tagged with "Youth"

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

• Allergy - Overview
• Vitamin D deficiency in adolescents – review
• Transgender associated with autism, low vitamin D, low BMD, etc. - many studies
• Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis is strongly associated with low vitamin D – many studies
• Child Obesity and Vitamin D - many studies
• Pediatric-Onset Multiple Sclerosis - several studies
• Autism associated with low Vitamin D (again) – Meta-Analysis
• Insulin resistance in overweight youths treated Vitamin D (such as 50K IU weekly) – meta-analysis
• Childhood and youth obesity – more than 4,000 IU vitamin D average daily would help – meta-analysis
• Vitamin D loading doses of up to 400,000 IU OK for adolescents – meta-analysis
• Swine flu not prevented by 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily (the upper limit at the time) – RCT 2014
• Bedwetting reduced 40 percent by 1,000 IU of vitamin D for 2 months – RCT
• Tuberculosis treatment helped a bit by a bit of Vitamin D - RCT
• Takes a year to restore children and youths to good levels of vitamin D without loading dose - RCT
• Obese teens need more than 2,000 IU of vitamin D for 3 months– RCT
• 5,000 IU daily or 50,000 IU Vitamin D weekly repleted many dark skinned adolescents – RCT
• Winter youths need at least 1200 IU of vitamin D to maintain 20 nanograms – RCT 2016
• Youths need 1500 IU to get even 20 ng of vitamin D – RCT
• More calcium in bones in those teenage girls getting 2,000 IUs daily – RCT
• Girls in India grew much faster when given Vitamin D, Ca, Zn, multi. – RCT
• 2000 IU vitamin D raised virtually all Lebanese youths above 20 ng – RCT
• GLP-1 and pediatric weight loss and regain after stopping - many unknowns
• Critically ill children – randomized clinical trial to give single doses of up to 400,000 IU of vitamin D – 2019
• Severe asthma children 31X more likely to develop chronic obstructive lung disease
• 600000 IU dose raised youth vitamin D level by 60 ng in 3 days
• 97 percent of Native American children have less than 30 ng of vitamin D
• Cognitive problems in young adults increased 9.1X in a decade - Nov 2025
• Adult heart problems 2 X more likely low vitamin D 23 years earlier
• Comparison of Vitamin D supplementation guidelines for children – China 400 IU 2012
• COVID vaccination increased risk of autoimmune disease by 23% (teens in Israel)
• Months after 2nd COVID vaccination, emergency room visits increased 20% (100,000 Danish teens)
• Multiple Sclerosis increasing in teens – at least 2X in 9 years
• Depression cost-effectively reduced by 50,000 IU of Vitamin D monthly (Iranian teens)
• French children prescribed liquid vitamin D - daily, monthly and quarterly
• International Adolescent Anxiety and suicide rates - GBD
• Better visual memory if more vitamin D
• Vitamin D levels in teens restored with 150,000 IU monthly for 3 months (mean 33 ng)
• Country noticed that their youths need more Vitamin D (Norway this time)
• Autism increased 53 percent between 2017 and 2020
• COVID vaccination increased by 137X the risk of 10-14 year olds of dying (UK)
• Vaccinations banned in UK if under age 12, US planning on annual vaccinations
• 2.5 X more health compaints in children and youths if low vitamin D
• Milk fortification of 1000 IU got most children above 20ng of vitamin D
• Increased risk of many neuro problems after COVID (1.4 X youths, 1.2X seniors)
• Pandemic Vitamin D levels dropped by 3.3 ng (perhaps less D, more health problems)
• Dark Skinned youths and vitamin D in Southern Canada - Dissertation 2011
• Prediabetes in US youths increased 2X in 2 decades
• French pediatric consensus: 30 – 60 ng of Vitamin D
• Majority of South Asian children and youths have low vitamin D (85 pcnt of neonates)
• Asthma 3.7X higher risk of poor Vitamin D Receptor (teens in Taiwan in this case)
• Younger are much less likely to die of COVID than elderly (posters)
• Youth
• South African white children 48 ng vitamin D – black 37 ng
• Teens with low vitamin D were 4.2 X more likely to have metabolic syndrome – CASPIAN-V
• Vitamin D restored in teens by doses totalling 300,000 IU
• 450,000 IU of vitamin D over 9 weeks given to 100,000 teenage Iranian girls helped their livers
• Vitamin D for Adolescents - review 2019
• Metabolic Syndrome in Chinese youths 2.5 X more likely if less than 20 ng of vitamin D
• Do teens need just 10 ng or up to 60 ng of vitamin D – Review
• Black obese children had low vitamin D and more fat under skin than whites
• Reasons for children having low vitamin D (proposed by 10 societies)
• Children with Cancer were 6X more likely to have less than 10ng of vitamin D
• 96 percent of Iranian children have low vitamin D and markers of metabolic syndrome
• 3X more abdominal obesity among Korean children having low vitamin D
• Children have PTH problems when vitamin D is less than 15 ng
• Based on PTH response, obese adolescents may not need and much vitamin D as non-obese (12 ng vs 16.5 ng)
• Children still need 30 ng of vitamin D
• Children surviving blood cancer and vitamin D levels
• 26 X increase in Vitamin D prescriptions for youths in England in 8 years
• Vitamin D deficient – 1 in 3 of young Australians have less than 20 ng
• Obesity lowers vitamin D which increases probability of diabetes in children
• Children with low vitamin D far more likely to hospitalized with COVID-19
• Half of obese black teens achieved at least 30 ng of Vitamin D with 5,000 IU daily
• 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily helped 80 percent of adolescents
• 11 family members got COVID-19 due to one teen in 3 weeks – CDC
• Result of 5 years of Vitamin D given to athletes in a high school: $60 million in scholarships, almost zero concussions, etc.
• US young adults – 24 percent have prediabetes (many low-cost ways to treat)
• Why is teen anxiety increasing so much (no mention of Magnesium, Vitamin D nor Omega-3)
• Child exposed to smoke is 1.5 X more likely to have low vitamin D
• Type II Diabetes in children in India increased 4 X in 20 years
• Vitamin D consensus for Italian children, 30 ng needed, up to 4,000 IU if over age 10
• Depression 7X more likely in male youths if low vitamin D
• Obese children and youths need more vitamin D – Review
• Bariatric surgery less than 30 ng of vitamin D – 82 pcnt teens, 100 pcnt of black teens
• Low back pain in 71 percent of youths in Egypt – associated with low vitamin D
• Vitamin D insufficiency in UK youths – 37X more likely if dark skin
• Migraines in youths with low Vitamin D wonderfully treated by Vitamin D
• Overweight children are 3.4 X more likely to have low Vitamin D
• Hypertension 2X more likely as a youth if low vitamin D for first 3 years of life
• Suicide rate among Native American teens increasing (yet no mention of low vitamin D)
• Low Vitamin D Permeates All Stages of Psychosis
• IBS (1 in 5 youths) strongly associated with low vitamin D
• Cancer in children 6X more likely if very low vitamin D
• Kids have recently reduced both cholesterol and vitamin D
• Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder increasing (2.7X in US Blacks under age 18 in 20 years)
• Low levels of Vitamin D in UAE juveniles (virtually none had 30 ng)
• Half of US high school students will have dark skins by 2025
• Teens no longer depressed after vitamin D raised to 36 ng
• Slow walking speed of youths 14 times more likely if low vitamin D
• Diabetes (T2DM) half as likely if keep Vitamin D above 25 ng as a youth
• Juvenile Lupus treated by Vitamin D – need more studies to understand why
• Vitamin D deficiency 4X more likely in Italian teens if: dark skin, winter, obese, little sun, or use sunscreen
• Forearm fracture 3.5X more often in black children with low levels of vitamin D
• The Convergence of Two Epidemics: Vitamin D Deficiency in Obese School-aged Children
• Having several concussions as a teenager doubled the risk of Multiple Sclerosis
• Children with headaches had less vitamin D
• Majority of adolescents have far less than optimum vitamin D levels
• Muscle strength in youth increased with 60,000 IU vitamin D per week and 1 g Calcium
• Decreased vitamin D in children taking asthma drugs
• Stroke rates increasing in youth and decreasing in elderly (perhaps due to Vitamin D)
• Vitamin D guidelines of American Academy of Pediatrics said none should be even tested, yet 91 percent had less than 30 ng
• Children stayed in ICU 3.5 days longer if low vitamin D
• Symptoms of vitamin D deficiency vary with the age of the child
• Many US kids have less than 40 ng of Vitamin D – 99 out of 100 blacks, 91 out of 100 whites
• Teenagers having sticky, painful knees (Osteochondrosis Dissecans) virtually always have low vitamin D
• Urban children not have enough vitamin D even with 13 months of sunshine
• Obese children – 71 percent had low vitamin D
• Vitamin D levels of Mexican children: mean 38 ng
• Vitamin D levels vary during adolescence, often decreasing to insufficiency
• Depression in youths associated with low vitamin D during pregnancy
• Low vitamin D during pregnancy associated with four health problems in children
• Virtually all Chinese teens at 30 degree N have less than 30 ng of vitamin D
• Children with low vitamin D were 1.8 X more likely to have poor arteries 27 years later
• Dark skinned teens use media much more
• Virtually all young Koreans had less than 30 ng of vitamin D – 2012
• Vitamin D levels low in early teens
• Several papers on Vitamin D for critically ill children in Journal of Pediatrics
• Children with severe asthma had much lower levels of vitamin D
• Italian youth vitamin D deficiency increased likelihood: 27X if winter, 5X if obese, etc.
• Class in High School eliminated Vitamin D deficiency: outdoors and food
• Youthful heart attacks associated with low vitamin D
• Increasing time with indoor media, prescribe time outdoors
• Teenage knee injury 4X increase in last decade in Philadelphia
• Could growing pains in a child be a vitamin D deficiency
• Less bone mass at age 9 if low vitamin D during pregnancy and childhood – Lancet 2006
• Psychiatric disorders 4X more likely in teens if low vitamin D
• 80 percent of teens in Europe had less than 30 ng of vitamin D
• Teens with higher levels of vitamin D were more fit in some ways
• Teens increasingly indoors - especially if dark skin
• Delima: Most youths are vitamin D deficient – what to do
• Might Vitamin D be the fountain of youth
• Vitamin D statement by Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine – behind paywall
• Ways to increase teen vitamin D
• Half of children with chronic illness had low levels of vitamin D
• Poorer teen cognition due to lower vitamin D or race
• No association between diabetes level and vitamin D insufficiency in obese youth
• Teen obesity strongly associated with vitamin D deficiency
• 5 out of 6 UK dark skinned kids who were vitamin D deficient had no symptoms
• 744 IU vitamin D needed by Northern white teens to prevent Rickets
• Obese teens needed 4000 IU of vitamin D
• 90 percent of Canadian youth less than 30 ng vitamin D
• Hardly any children had enough vitamin D before bone surgery
• Korean teens more likely to be obese if have less than 18 ng of vitamin D
• To increase vitamin D levels in children need 1000 or 2000 IU
• Sun exposure protects children from asthma
• Bone density of children did not improve with 3 month of vitamin D
• Caucasian youths low on vitamin D were more likely to have hypertension
• Some children with kidney disease cannot stand too much vitamin D
• White children in Johannesburg do not need vitamin D supplements
• Autistic children found to have very low vitamin D
• Children sicker now than in the past - 2007
• 800 IU Vitamin D while pregnant decrease child asthma by 2X
• Perhaps low vitamin D increases child obesity
• Increased forearm fractures in obese children
• Increase in some childhood cancers with latitude
• Adding a little vitamin D for 3 months did not help bones of healthy children
• 200 to 2000 IU vitamin D daily did not improve child bone density – BMJ
• AAP Issues Guidelines on Limiting Sun Exposure in Children
• 300 IU vitamin D daily raised child levels to 20 ng from 8 ng
• Corticosteroid decreased vitamin D levels in children with asthma
• 75 percent of children in NE US had less than 20 ng of vitamin D in winter
• Septic shock and low vitamin D in children
• 40 percent of Canadian children preparing for surgery had less than 30 ng of vitamin D
• Children with low vitamin D were 4.8X more likely to get asthma
• Vitamin D and multiracial teens in US
• Low vitamin D among black teens
• Low vitamin D in teens: especially black or overweight
• Calcium deficiency is a risk factor for overweight female teenagers
• Obesity in American-Indians and African-American teens
• 2000 IU raised black teens vitamin D level to 34 ng and they lost fat
• Red Alert – one in three pre-teens in Tehran had less than 5 ng of vitamin D
• Why vitamin D is not a problem for some youth