Can Stoss Therapy Be Used in Children with Vitamin D Deficiency or Insufficiency without Rickets?
Author(s) -
Cemil Koçyiğit,
Gönül Çatlı,
Gülberat İnce,
Elif Büşra Özkan,
Bumin Nuri Dündar
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of clinical research in pediatric endocrinology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.566
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1308-5735
pISSN - 1308-5727
DOI - 10.4274/jcrpe.3842
Subject(s) - medicine , rickets , vitamin d and neurology , vitamin d deficiency , parathyroid hormone , creatinine , alkaline phosphatase , secondary hyperparathyroidism , vitamin , endocrinology , gastroenterology , calcium , biochemistry , chemistry , enzyme
Stoss vitamin D treatment has been recommended for its non-skeletal benefits in adults, but there is a lack of data on the optimal dose of vitamin D stoss therapy in children with vitamin D deficiency/insufficiency without rickets. This study aimed to compare efficiency/side effects of two different stoss therapy regimens (10 000 IU/kg and 300 000 IU vitamin D3) administered in children with vitamin D deficiency/insufficiency without rickets.
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