New information presented several months ago at the 73rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology, found that patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) (Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD)) are at a higher risk of developing vitamin D deficiencies.
Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin studied disease activity and quality of life, as well as IBD-related hospitalizations, surgeries and medication use.
This was a retrospective study looking at 504 inflammatory bowel disease patients. Dr. Alex Ulitsky, the principal researcher , found that almost 50% of the patients were vitamin D deficient at some point and 11% were severely deficient. In both Crohn’s disease and also ulcertaive colitis patients, vitamin D deficiency was independently associated with having higher disease activity scores compared with those patients that had normal levels of vitamin D. Vitamin D deficient CD patients, but not UC patients had a worse quality of life when compared to patients who were not vitamin D deficient
A quote from Dr. Ulitsky was "All IBD patients, irrespective of their disease, disease location or nature should have their Vitamin D levels checked regularly and corrected aggressively when insufficiency is found."
I am delighted to see him saying this as we know that normalizing every patient’s vitamin D levels can at worse to do no harm, but at best may significantly improve their underlying disease process, and in this case their IBD
Hi there,
Super post, Need to mark it on Digg
Have a nice day
Joker
Thanks Joker !
Tried to download the PDF file, it said it couldn’t be found.
Eileen just click the link and it opens to a page at pubmed not a pdf! let me know if you need more help
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Hi, cool post. I have been wondering about this topic,so thanks for posting. I’ll certainly be subscribing to your blog. Keep up great writing
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Thanks Zoran
I update as often as I can …but I have a VERY busy daytime medical practice! there is a new one this weekend and another one coming soon
Excellent blog, very imformative and to the point, keep up the good work.
Great post! Just wanted to let you know you have a new subscriber- me!
Thanks Kris !Glad it is helpful! Vitamin D is amazing!
Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?
satnam dr soram,
dr guruchander from new mexico told me how great your book is and how important vit d is for good health. how does this directly impact dull pain in the legs especially when trying to sleep at night. andwhat is the name of your book ? can i get copies in malaysia
my dad suffered from colitis a couple of years ago, this disease is quite painful-;.