1. Vitamin D status in children with intestinal failure who have achieved enteral autonomy
- Author
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Jasmeet S. Mokha, Kate Samela, Chelsea A. Lepus, and Karan M. Emerick
- Subjects
Short Bowel Syndrome ,medicine.medical_specialty ,030309 nutrition & dietetics ,Population ,Medicine (miscellaneous) ,Enteral administration ,Gastroenterology ,vitamin D deficiency ,Intestinal Failure ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Vitamin D and neurology ,Humans ,Vitamin D ,education ,Child ,Retrospective Studies ,0303 health sciences ,Univariate analysis ,education.field_of_study ,Nutrition and Dietetics ,business.industry ,Odds ratio ,medicine.disease ,Vitamin D Deficiency ,Osteopenia ,Parenteral nutrition ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,business - Abstract
BACKGROUND Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent in children with intestinal failure (IF) who receive parenteral nutrition (PN), but data on vitamin D status after achieving enteral autonomy (EA) are limited. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in this population while exploring clinical variables that may be associated with its development. METHODS A retrospective review was performed on 29 children with IF who had achieved EA. Deficiency was defined as a mean serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D
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- 2021