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Prevalence and predictors of vitamin D-deficiency in frail older hospitalized patients.

Simon Friedrich BoettgerBjoern AngersbachChristiane Nicola KlimekAna Lemos Monteiro WanderleyAzim ShaibekovLars SieskeBaigang WangMatthias ZuchowskiRainer WirthMaryam Pourhassan
Published in: BMC geriatrics (2018)
In the group of frail older hospitalized patients without previous vitamin D supplementation, the prevalence of inadequate vitamin D concentrations is extremely high. Therefore, usefulness of the routine measurement of vitamin D status before initiating of supplementation appears to be questionable in this patient group.
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