Women & Health, 55:367–377, 2015 Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 0363-0242 print/1541-0331 online DOI: 10.1080/03630242.2015.1022685
Vitamin D Status and Monitoring in Female Veterans AHMAD ALAZZEH, MD and MARIA M. COOPER, MS II Department of Internal Medicine, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
BETH BAILEY, PhD Department of Family Medicine, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
DIMA A. YOUSSEF, MD Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
TODD MANNING, BA Department of Medicine, Mountain Home VAMC, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
ALAN N. PEIRIS, MD, PhD, MRCP (UK), FACP Division of Endrocrinology, Department of Medicine, Mountain Home VAMC; and Division of Endrocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
An increasing number of women are serving in the military. We initiated a retrospective study to evaluate vitamin D status and monitoring in female veterans, and to examine the potential link between vitamin D status, age, race, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), health care costs, and utilization. Approximately 44 percent of the 3,608 female veterans evaluated between 2001 and 2010 were vitamin D deficient (25(OH)D < 20 ng/ml), a rate substantially higher than that of the general population. While younger (
Vitamin D Status and Monitoring in Female Veterans AHMAD ALAZZEH, MD and MARIA M. COOPER, MS II Department of Internal Medicine, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
BETH BAILEY, PhD Department of Family Medicine, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
DIMA A. YOUSSEF, MD Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
TODD MANNING, BA Department of Medicine, Mountain Home VAMC, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
ALAN N. PEIRIS, MD, PhD, MRCP (UK), FACP Division of Endrocrinology, Department of Medicine, Mountain Home VAMC; and Division of Endrocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
An increasing number of women are serving in the military. We initiated a retrospective study to evaluate vitamin D status and monitoring in female veterans, and to examine the potential link between vitamin D status, age, race, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), health care costs, and utilization. Approximately 44 percent of the 3,608 female veterans evaluated between 2001 and 2010 were vitamin D deficient (25(OH)D < 20 ng/ml), a rate substantially higher than that of the general population. While younger (
