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Here are the topics (149 out of 5,000?) which resulted from search for Vitamin D (similar # for Magnesium)

  • Vitamin D deficiency in adults: Definition, clinical manifestations, and treatment click to see first portion of topic for free - with references

  • Overview of vitamin D

  • Vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency in children and adolescents

  • Calcium and vitamin D supplementation in osteoporosis

  • Vitamin D and extraskeletal health

  • Causes of vitamin D deficiency and resistance

    • Groups: Elderly, Children, Healthy adults in the winter, Hospitalized patients, Women treated for osteoporosis, Chronic renal disease, Gastrointestinal disease, Gastric bypass, Immigrants to cold climates from warm climates, Patients who have musculoskeletal pain, Cystic fibrosis, Extensive burns

  • Regulation of calcium and phosphate balance

  • Overview of rodenticide poisoning

  • Etiology and treatment of calcipenic rickets in children

  • Important health maintenance issues for children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease

  • Diagnostic approach to hypocalcemia

  • Overview of the causes and treatment of hyperphosphatemia

  • Overview of the management of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women

  • Management of secondary hyperparathyroidism and mineral metabolism abnormalities in adult predialysis patients with chronic kidney disease

  • Treatment of psoriasis

  • Vitamin supplementation in disease prevention

  • Treatment of hypocalcemia

  • Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of osteomalacia

  • Endocrine dysfunction in the nephrotic syndrome

  • Epidemiology and etiology of osteomalacia

  • Biology of vascular calcification in chronic kidney disease

  • Etiology of hypocalcemia in infants and children

  • Pediatric chronic kidney disease-mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD)

  • Vascular calcification in chronic kidney disease

  • Osteoporosis after solid organ or stem cell transplantation

  • Overview of chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disease (CKD-MBD)

  • Initial management of discoid lupus and subacute cutaneous lupus

  • Healthy diet in adults

  • Preeclampsia: Prevention

  • Micronutrient deficiencies associated with malnutrition in children

  • Chemotherapy-induced alopecia

  • Vitiligo

  • Management of secondary hyperparathyroidism and mineral metabolism abnormalities in dialysis patients

  • Primary prevention of melanoma

  • Metabolic bone disease in primary biliary cirrhosis

  • Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of primary hyperparathyroidism

  • Management of neonatal bone health

  • Cystic fibrosis: Nutritional issues

  • Antiepileptic drugs and bone disease

  • Falls: Prevention in community-dwelling older persons

  • Geriatric nutrition: Nutritional issues in older adults

  • Causes of hypophosphatemia

  • Etiology of hypocalcemia in adults

  • Nutrient deficiencies in inflammatory bowel disease

  • Prevention and treatment of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis

  • Hereditary hypophosphatemic rickets and tumor-induced osteomalacia

  • Parathyroid hormone secretion and action

  • Osteoporosis in patients with chronic kidney disease: Diagnosis, evaluation, and management

  • Neonatal hypocalcemia

  • Metabolic bone disease in inflammatory bowel disease

  • Vegetarian diets for children

  • Clinical manifestations of magnesium depletion

  • Chapter 6G: Calcium and phosphate metabolism in renal failure

  • Symptomatic management of nephrotic syndrome in children

  • Endocrine changes with aging

  • The milk-alkali syndrome

  • Cancer prevention

  • Treatment of morphea (localized scleroderma) in adults

  • Nutrition in pregnancy

  • Osteoclast inhibitors in the management of bone metastases from breast cancer

  • Calciphylaxis (calcific uremic arteriolopathy)

  • Epidemiology and etiology of osteoporosis in men

  • Clinical manifestations of hypocalcemia

  • Dent's disease (X-linked recessive nephrolithiasis)

  • Pathogenesis and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease in HIV-infected patients

  • Statin myopathy

  • Pathogenesis and epidemiology of multiple sclerosis

  • Guttate psoriasis

  • Colorectal cancer: Epidemiology, risk factors, and protective factors

  • Nephrocalcinosis

  • Risk factors for prostate cancer

  • Introducing solid foods and vitamin and mineral supplementation during infancy

  • Chemoprevention strategies in prostate cancer

  • Prevention of type 1 diabetes mellitus

  • The common cold in adults: Treatment and prevention

  • Normal skeletal development and regulation of bone formation and resorption

  • Geriatric health maintenance

  • Pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes mellitus

  • Chapter 6L: Summary of hormone actions on the kidney

  • Hypercalcemia in granulomatous diseases

  • Transient hyperphosphatasemia of infancy and early childhood

  • Etiology of hypercalcemia

  • Overview of rickets in children

  • Adynamic bone disease associated with chronic kidney disease

  • Prevention of osteoporosis

  • Parathyroid and mineral metabolism after renal transplantation

  • Patient information: Vitamin D deficiency (Beyond the Basics)

  • Evaluation and treatment of premenopausal osteoporosis

  • Evaluation and management of aromatase inhibitor-induced bone loss

  • Bone and calcium disorders in HIV-infected patients

  • Overview of the treatment of malabsorption

  • Management of primary hyperparathyroidism

  • Hypercalcemia of malignancy

  • Management of psoriasis in pregnancy

  • Falls: Prevention in nursing care facilities and the hospital setting

  • Treatment of hyperphosphatemia in chronic kidney disease

  • Physical activity in patients with chronic kidney disease (including end-stage renal disease and renal transplantation)

  • Treatment of hypercalcemia

  • Nutritional composition of human milk for full-term infants

  • Treatment of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy

  • Bisphosphonates and denosumab in patients with metastatic cancer

  • Risk factors for asthma

  • Hypophosphatemia in the alcoholic patient

  • Treatment of osteoporosis in men

  • Overview of the treatment of primary biliary cirrhosis

  • Clinical manifestations of primary hyperparathyroidism

  • Diuretics and calcium balance

  • Nutritional support in advanced lung disease

  • Nutritional status in patients with sustained heavy alcohol use

  • Dietary recommendations for toddlers, preschool, and school-age children

  • Musculoskeletal manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus

  • Risks of therapy with bone antiresorptive agents in patients with advanced malignancy

  • Lactose intolerance

  • Denosumab for osteoporosis

  • The use of bisphosphonates in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis

  • Pustular psoriasis: Management

  • Pathogenesis, clinical features, and evaluation of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis

  • AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma: Staging and treatment

  • Management of food allergy: Nutritional issues

  • Normal aging

  • Carbohydrate and insulin metabolism in chronic kidney disease

  • Tropical sprue

  • Risk factors for calcium stones in adults

  • Nonpharmacologic therapy of osteoarthritis

  • Pathogenesis and etiology of primary hyperparathyroidism

  • Primary sclerosing cholangitis in adults: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis

  • Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in children: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis

  • Selection of sunscreen and sun-protective measures

  • Overview of care of the adult kidney transplant recipient

  • Myopathies of systemic disease

  • Overview of the use of osteoclast inhibitors in early breast cancer

  • Pathogenesis, evaluation and diagnosis of growth impairment in children with chronic kidney disease

  • Grover's disease (transient and persistent acantholytic dermatosis)

  • Breastfeeding the preterm infant

  • Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome

  • Frailty

  • Factors that modify breast cancer risk in women

  • Photoaging

  • Epidemiology and toxicity of cadmium

  • Erythropoietic protoporphyria

  • Prevention of dementia

  • Failure to thrive in elderly adults: Management

  • Bone metastases in advanced prostate cancer: Management

  • Bone disease with hyperthyroidism and thyroid hormone therapy

  • Risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia

  • Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of bronchiectasis in adults

  • Treatment and prognosis of juvenile dermatomyositis and polymyositis

  • Surgical management of severe obesity in adolescents

  • Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth

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