Invited Commentary

Commentary on "Vitamin D Insufficiency/Deficiency Management"

Authors: David Friedel, MD, Rani Modayil, MD, Arlene Stein, MS, RD

Abstract

In this issue of the Southern Medical Journal, Kuriacose and Olive present a retrospective review of vitamin D insufficiency/ deficiency in a cohort of ambulatory patients seen in an
internal medicine clinic in Johnson City, Tennessee.1 The article seems to be an expansion of their earlier work, with an added arm of supplementation in appropriate subjects.2 In the earlier study, they found that more than half of the subjects tested had low vitamin D levels.

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References

1. Kuriacose R, Olive KE. Vitamin D insufficiency/deficiency management. South Med J 2014;107:66-70.
 
2. Kuriacose R, Olive KE. Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency in northeast Tennessee. South Med J 2008;101:906-909.
 
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