Vitamin D Meeting in Washington DC
Vitamin D: Moving Toward Evidence-based Decision Making in Primary Care
Dec 2, 3 2014
Summary notes by Vitamin D Life
There may be a problem for vitamin D levels > 50 ng
People need a lot more vitamin D than they are getting
Controversey as to how much - little conversation about basing dose size on weight
Groups who are at high risk of being deficient - they acknowledge only elderly, blacks, excessive clothes so far
Testing inaccuracy continues to be a big problem
Blacks need a lower level than whites - continues to be a controversy
Genes are important, and vitamin D deficiency can be inherited
Virtually no discussion on importance of cofactors
Day 1 Video Day 2 video with discussion
A few of the thousands of images from the event
Older skin does not produce as much vitamin D
Purda around the world
U shaped risk - more in blacks
Dose-Response Whites vs AA 2014
Conclusion - same amount of supplementation for AA
VDP papers versus year peak in 1983, and again now
AA vitamin D vs latitude and binding protein - unpublished
VDBP in AA and whites
Vitamin D status is Heritable - more than gene analysis show
DBP - whites seem to have more
Testosterone increase with higher vitamin D - not published yet
Prostate Cancer U shaped - conclusions
Mortality Ushaped
PTH test results vary even within Seattle
Differences between test results
Test differences
See also Vitamin D Life
See also web
- Primary care physicians face vitamin D conundrum Family Practice News on the conference “I don’t know.”
- That’s what family physician Michael L. LeFevre tells patients who ask him
- if they should be screened for vitamin D levels or if they could benefit from vitamin D supplementation.