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- Intensive Care (ICU) helped by Vitamin D – review of past and on-going studies – Dec 2018
- Vitamin D, trauma, and blacks - Dr. Matthews interview with transcript - Jan 2019
- Rapidly restore Vitamin D levels with 10,000 IU per kg for children in ICU – RCT 2024
- Micronutrients (such as Vitamin D) for critically ill children – review Oct 2017
- ICU cost reduced by at least 27,000 dollars if get high dose vitamin D in first week - April 2017
- Vitamin D and exercise after hip fracture surgery – far fewer deaths – July 2016
- 18 fewer hospital days if given 500,000 IU of vitamin D while ventilated in ICU – RCT June 2016
- Hospitalized cats 8X more likely to die if low vitamin D (Vit. D helps humans too) – May 2015
- Surgical outcomes are better for higher levels of Vitamin D – systematic review May 2015
- Vitamin D intervention increased by 20 percent the survival of critically ill patients- RCT June 2014
- 5 out of 6 children who died in pediatric critical care unit had low vitamin D – May 2014
- 3X more likely to die within 3 months of being in ICU for 2 days if less than 20 ng vitamin D – Sept 2013
- 2X more likely to get hospital infection if low vitamin D (10 ng) when enter – Oct 2013
- More sepsis deaths when active vitamin D (Calcitrol) was low – May 2013
- Almost 6X more likely to die after coronary bypass if vitamin D deficient – Dec 2012
- With just 200 IU vitamin D in intravenous feeds, deficiency results
Vitamin D deficiency as a risk factor for infection, sepsis and mortality in the critically ill: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Crit Care. 2014 Dec 5;18(6):660. [Epub ahead of print]
de Haan K k.dehaan at erasmusmc.nl , Groeneveld A, de Geus H, Egal M, Struijs A.
ICU with < 20 ng of vitamin D
Infection increased 1.5X
Sepsis increased 1.5X
Death increased 1.8X
Introduction: In Europe, vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent varying between 40% to 60% in the healthy general adult population. The consequences of vitamin D deficiency for sepsis and outcome in critically ill patients remains controversial. We therefore systematically reviewed observational cohort studies on vitamin D deficiency on the intensive care unit.
Methods: Fourteen observational reports published from January 2000 to March 2014, retrieved from Pubmed and Embase, involving 9,715 critically ill patients and serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25 (OH)-D) concentrations, were meta-analysed.
Results: Levels of 25 (OH)-D less than 50 nmol/L were associated with increased rates of infection (risk ratio (RR) 1.49, 95% (confidence interval (CI) 1.12 to 1.99), P =0.007), sepsis (RR 1.46, 95% (CI 1.27 to 1.68), P <0.001), 30-day mortality (RR 1.42, 95% (CI 1.00 to 2.02), P =0.05), and in-hospital mortality (RR 1.79, 95% (CI 1.49 to 2.16), P <0.001). In a subgroup analysis of adjusted data including vitamin D deficiency as a risk factor for 30 day-mortality the pooled RR was 1.76 (95% CI 1.37 to 2.26, P <0.001).
Conclusions: This meta-analysis suggests that vitamin D deficiency increases susceptibility for severe infections and mortality of the critically ill.
PMID: 25475621
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Association between vitamin D deficiency and mortality in critically ill adult patients: a meta-analysis of cohort studies
Critical Care 2014, 18:684 doi:10.1186/s13054-014-0684-9 Published: 12 December 2014
Yan-Peng Zhang1, You-Dong Wan1, Tong-Wen Sun1*, Quan-Cheng Kan2* and Le-Xin Wang3*
Corresponding authors: Tong-Wen Sun suntongwen at 163.com - Quan-Cheng Kan 1017361289 at qq.com - Le-Xin Wang LWang at csu.edu.au
Abstract (provisional)
Introduction Vitamin D deficiency is common in critically ill patients, and was reported to be associated with adverse outcomes. However, the effect of vitamin D deficiency on mortality in critically ill patients remains unclear.
Methods We searched PubMed and EMBASE from the inception to July 2014 for cohort studies to assess the effect of vitamin D deficiency on the incidence of mortality in critically ill patients. Mortality-specific odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) were pooled with a random- or fixed-effect models when appropriate.
Results Seven cohort studies with a total of 4,204 participants including 1,679 cases of vitamin D deficiency were included in this meta-analysis.
Vitamin D deficiency was significantly associated with an increased hospital mortality (OR 1.76; 95% CI, 1.38 to 2.24; P <0.001), with very low heterogeneity (I 2?=?2.3%; P =0.402).
The finding of increased hospital mortality in critically ill adult patients was consistently found in every stratum of our subgroup analyses.
Conclusions This meta-analysis suggests that vitamin D deficiency is associated with increased incidence of hospital mortality in critically ill adult patients.
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