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Vitamin D Deficiency and Parathyroid Response in Critically-ill Children: Authors Reply.

Though the authors have excluded patients with known parathyroid disease, rickets, renal tubular acidosis, chronic kidney disease or a diagnosis of acute kidney injury at admission, about 56% children were stated to have some underlying chronic illness. One would be really interested to know the nature of these chronic illnesses, as many diseases such as chronic liver disease [2] and nephrotic ...

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Vitamin D and Dysfunctional Adipose Tissue in Obesity (Authors' Reply).

Vitamin D deficiency and dysfunctional adipose tissue are involved in the development of cardiometabolic disturbances (eg, hypertension, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes mellitus, obesity, and dyslipidemia). We evaluated the relation between vitamin D and adipocytokines derived from adipose tissue. We studied 50 obese individuals who were classified into different subgroups according to medi...

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