Category: Calcium

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Chronic kidney disease and its relation to osteoporosis and fracture

August 31, 2021 by admin

With the increase in the number of ageing population, a number of comorbidities have been seen to be on a rise. Increasing prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) with underlying lifestyle related disorders like hypertension and diabetes mellitus has become a major challenge. CKD– mineral bone disorder (MBD) develops in association with secondary hyperparathyroidism due […]

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Vitamin B12 an essential vitamin required for good bone and cardiovascular health

August 19, 2021 by admin

Bone health maintenance is a dynamic mechanism where in the bone mass is achieved by an equilibrium of bone formation and bone resorption. In the early stages of life when the bone formation is more than the bone resorption, the body achieves its peak bone mass1. Whereas, as an individual crosses his adolescent stage of […]

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Vitamin K2-7 is an important vitamin required for bone and cardiovascular health

July 22, 2021 by admin

Vitamin K is a cofactor for enzyme, γ-glutamylcarboxylase. This γ-carboxylation allows VKD proteins to bind calcium. Vitamin K is required for the activity of coagulation and anticoagulation factors and for the binding of osteocalcin to hydroxyapatite in bone.1Both forms of vitamin K, K1 and K2, are essential in maintaining blood hemostasis and optimal bone and […]

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Calcium: Important mineral in management of Osteoporosis

June 24, 2021 by admin

The skeletal disease of bone thinning and compromised bone strength, osteoporosis, continues to be a major public health issue as the population ages. This disease is characterized by bone fragility and an increased susceptibility to fractures, especially of the spine and hip, although any bone can be affected. Risk for osteoporosis has been reported in […]

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Low serum calcium predicts hospitalization in COVID-19 patients

June 1, 2021 by admin

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV-2), presents primarily with fever, dry cough, and fatigue or myalgia.1 Although most patients have a favorable prognosis, infection may not infrequently lead to a severe syndrome requiring hospitalization and assisted ventilation with high lethality.2 Previous studies have reported that calcium played a central […]

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How to manage bone health in women from peri to postmenopause

May 28, 2021 by admin

Perimenopause to Post menopause changes for women & Bone Health changes  Perimenopause is characterized by increasing menstrual irregularity but less than 3 months of amenorrhea, late perimenopause by amenorrhea lasting greater than 3 months but less than 1 year, and post menopause by the absence of menstrual bleeding for twelve consecutive months or more. The […]

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High prevalence of hypocalcemia in non-severe COVID-19 patients

May 27, 2021 by admin

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has affected over 50 million people and has inflicted more than 1.2 million casualties ever since its inception in December 2019. Although most patients tend to have mild-moderate disease with a favorable prognosis, the infection may not infrequently lead to severe-to critical disease and mortality1. The prognosis tends to be […]

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Serum calcium: biomarker of clinical severity and prognosis in COVID 19 patients

May 24, 2021 by admin

The pathogen has been reported as a novel coronavirus named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The World Health Organization (WHO) has made the assessment that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can be characterized as a pandemic because the disease is still spreading rapidly around the world, especially in the United States, Spain, and Russia.1 The […]

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Low serum calcium: new, important indicator of COVID-19 patients from mild to severe

May 20, 2021 by admin

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread globally.1 Confirmed cases and deaths have been reported in more than 200 countries worldwide.2  While 80% of COVID-19 infections have less severe clinical symptoms (low-grade fever, cough, fatigue) with no evidence of pneumonia or even asymptomatic, those mild or moderate […]

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Heart health a good predictor of bone health

May 17, 2021 by admin

Osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are age-related diseases. Traditionally, these two conditions were considered unrelated and their coexistence was attributed to independent age-related processes. However, an increasing body of biological and epidemiological evidence has provided support for a link between the two conditions that cannot be explained by age alone. Shared risk factors, such as […]

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Hypocalcemia is highly incident in COVID-19

May 3, 2021 by admin

Basis of mechanism and therapeutic relevance of hypocalcemia during severe COVID-19 infection Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV- 2), presents primarily with fever, dry cough, and fatigue or myalgia.1 Many researches have reported that calcium played a central role in viral infectious and replicative mechanisms of SARS-CoV, […]

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Severity of COVID-19: Correlation with Serum Calcium levels

April 28, 2021 by admin

The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV- 2) is a newly emerging zoonotic corona virus that was discovered in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and has been identified as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).(1) The virus’s main manifestations on patients include fever, cough and shortness of breath that can progress rapidly in some cases to […]

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What happens when calcium levels in our body are low?

April 22, 2021 by admin | 1 Comment on What happens when calcium levels in our body are low?

What happens when calcium levels in our body are low? Inadequate intake of dietary calcium from food and supplements produce no obvious symptoms in the short term. Circulating blood levels of calcium are tightly regulated. Over the long term, inadequate calcium intake causes osteopenia which if untreated can lead to osteoporosis. The risk of bone […]

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