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Vitamin D deficiency was common in a Swiss cohort of patients initiating antiretroviral therapy. The role of screening and supplementation, however, remains unclear.

Several cohort studies have shown a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among HIV-infected patients (JW AIDS Clin Care Feb 12 2010). The latest such evidence comes from the Swiss HIV Cohort Study, in which researchers measured 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in stored plasma samples that were collected from 211 patients at the time they started antiretroviral therapy (103 in the spring and 108 in the fall) and then 12 and 18 months later.

Approximately 47% of all samples collected in the spring and 15% of those collected in the fall showed evidence of vitamin D deficiency (25-hydroxyvitamin D levels <30 nmol/L). Such deficiency was associated with nonwhite ethnicity, active injection-drug use, use of a nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhi…

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Franziska Schuessler, MD

Helmut Albrecht, MD

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Grant / Research supportHealth Resources and Services Administration; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Leadership positions in professional societiesColumbia Medical Society; South Carolina Infectious Diseases Society

Helmut Albrecht, MD

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Grant / Research supportHealth Resources and Services Administration; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Leadership positions in professional societiesColumbia Medical Society; South Carolina Infectious Diseases Society

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