Most people naturally have good vitamin D levels. Overhyped claims that the compound helps to fight diseases from cancer to depression aren’t borne out by recent research
On February 13-14, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) convened a virtual panel of the Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) to.
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Evidence remained insufficient to support broad screening for vitamin D deficiency in adults, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) said.
As it did in 2014, USPSTF determined that the lack of direct evidence precluded the assessment of the balance of benefits and harms of routine screening in asymptomatic, community-dwelling adults.
Detecting vitamin D deficiency itself poses several challenges in particular. It is possible that 25(OH)D the major circulating form of vitamin D may not be the best measure of deficiency, and vitamin D requirements may vary by sex and race, according to Alex Krist, MD, MPH, of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, and colleagues in
Patients taking immunosuppressive drugs did not have worse COVID-19 outcomes
People taking immunosuppressive drugs to prevent organ transplant rejection or to treat inflammatory or autoimmune diseases do not fare worse than others on average when they are hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Estimates suggest that there are approximately 10 million immunocompromised people in the U.S. alone. Suppression of the immune system has been considered a potentially major risk factor for severe and fatal COVID-19 because it could allow the SARS-CoV-2 virus to spread unchecked in the body.