Vitamin D
helps lower BP and uplifts mood in women with diabetes
Washington: Vitamin D supplements significantly lowers blood
pressure and improves moods of women who have type 2 diabetes and show signs of
depression, a new study has found.
Vitamin D even helped the women lose a few pounds.
Vitamin D even helped the women lose a few pounds.
"Vitamin D supplementation potentially is an easy and
cost-effective therapy, with minimal side effects," Sue M. Penckofer, PhD,
RN, lead author of the study and a professor in the Niehoff School of Nursing,
said.
"Larger, randomized controlled trials are needed to determine the impact of vitamin D supplementation on depression and major cardiovascular risk factors among women with Type 2 diabetes," she said.
The pilot study included 46 women who were an average age of 55 years, had diabetes an average of 8 years and insufficient blood levels of vitamin D (18 ng/ml). They took a weekly dose (50,000 International Units) of vitamin D. (By comparison, the recommended dietary allowance for women 51 to 70 years is 600 IU per day.)
After six months, their vitamin D blood levels reached sufficient levels (average 38 ng/ml) and their moods improved significantly.
Blood pressure also improved, with the upper number decreasing from 140.4 mm Hg to 132.5 mm Hg. And their weight dropped from an average of 226.1 pounds to 223.6 pounds.
26.06.2013
Mumbai
doctors perform India`s first domino kidney transplant
Mumbai: Simultaneous surgeries in three hospitals benefited
five recipients after the state authorisation panel gave permission for the
domino kidney transplant, first in India.
After facing many hurdles for getting permission from the government, country’s first-ever domino kidney transplant was successfully performed in the city on Tuesday.
The domino kidney transplant, which involves five donors and
five recipients, was conducted in three hospitals — two transplant procedures
each in Bombay Hospital and Hiranandani hospital and one in Hinduja hospital.
All the transplants were done on the same day.
A domino transplant is a series of surgeries in which each of the five donors gives an organ to a recipient not related to him/her, while the donor’s relative needing an organ gets it from a recipient’s relative. Legal issues are involved in organ donation cases when the donor and recipient are not related. Dr Shrirang Bicchu, nephrologist, Bombay hospital, said, “The success of this procedure will now set a precedent and encourage people to opt for it as it reduces a patient’s wait for the organ. We are very thankful to the government of Maharashtra; it helped speed up the procedure.”
As the transplant was being conducted in city hospitals and because four of the five donor-recipient pairs were from Maharashtra, permission of the state authorisation committee was necessary, which was given last week. On May 19, dna had first reported about the denial of the Rajasthan government in giving its nod to the procedure. Of the five donor-recipient pairs involved, one is from Rajasthan.
Permission had been sought from the Rajasthan state authorisation committee, a body mandated to clear such transplants to prevent illegal trade of organs. The committee, however, denied permission citing the Supreme Court guidelines that said nothing about a ‘domino’ procedure.
“It is a routine procedure in the United States; its success has been reported in several journals. The interesting thing about domino kidney transplant is that despite blood group not matching, with the help of this five-way swap, those in need are able to get the organ; otherwise, they have to wait for a long time. All credit goes to the Apex Swap Transplant Registry that addresses the issue of mismatch in blood groups or tissues in donor-recipient pairs,” said Dr Rajesh Kumar, nephrologist, Hiranandani hospital, one of the doctors on the domino transplant team.
26.06.2013
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