Geriatric Patients At High Risk Of Vitamin D Deficiency
The great majority of geriatric patients in a German rehabilitation hospital were found to have vitamin D deficiency. Stefan Schilling presents his study results in Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2012; 109[3]: 33-8). In order to establish the vitamin D status in geriatric patients in Germany, the researchers measured 25-OH vitamin D in 1578 patients in the geriatric rehabilitation hospital in Trier after they had been examined on admission. Insufficiently high concentrations were found in 89% of patients, and 67% had severe vitamin D deficiency... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs From Website Advertising Risky For Purchasers
A new study published in the journal Pharmacoepidemiology Drug Safety reveals that internet sites selling prescription statins directly to consumers are widespread, and that most websites advertising statins for sale to the general public contain very poor levels of information relevant to safe use of the medicine and side effects. Researchers led by Professor David Brown, School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, simulated a customer search and evaluation of 184 retrieved sites using evaluation tools focusing on quality and safe medicine use... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
