Spinal fusion patients often low on vitamin D - Nov 2011

Lower levels of vitamin D may put spinal fusion patients at risk, study finds

57% inadequate (< 30 ng)
27% deficient (20 ng)
4% severe deficient (< 10 ng)

The paper, presented Thursday at the North American Spine Society annual meeting,

Buchowski said the idea of checking vitamin D levels of patients first occurred to him in 2008.
A woman in her 40s who had undergone cervical fusion surgery and did not get an adequate fusion told him that she had been treated for a vitamin D deficiency.

"It was like a light bulb went off," he said.
For the last year and a half, all patients undergoing fusion surgery at Washington University have their vitamin D levels checked.

If they are deficient, they will be supplemented with a 50,000 IU ~~#F00:prescription dose//www.vitamindwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page_id=1270|#00F:co-factors
  Calcium, Magnesium, Vitamin K2, Boron, Silicon

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