ea0037ep316 | Calcium and Vitamin D metabolism | ECE2015
Kostoglou-Athanassiou Ifigenia
, Pantazi Eleni
, Mavropoulos Iordanis
, Skioti Ourania
, Katsoulis Georgios
, Kousouris Dimitrios
, Kontogiannis Socrates
Introduction: Vitamin D deficiency has been reported to be widely found within the population. Vitamin D deficiency was also found to be prevalent in patients with autoimmune inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. Vitamin D deficiency was reported in almost all patients with acute myocardial infarction in a US multicenter study. Low concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) are reported to be an independent risk factor for ca...