Endocrine Abstracts

Vitamin D deficiency is common and various supplementations regimens are in use. The purpose of this audit was to compare the efficacy of two short-term colecalciferol loading regimens in treating Vitamin D deficiency. Sixty-four consecutive patients with serum 25OH VitaminD ≤30 nmol/L were assigned to 12 or 16 weeks treatment with 40,000 IU colecalciferol orally once a week. The main endpoint was to identify which duration of treatment is adequate for achievement of suf...