The World Health Organization’s comprehensive antenatal care (ANC) guideline WHO recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience was first published in 2016 with the objective of improving the quality of routine health care that all women and adolescent girls receive during pregna...
This updated recommendation is relevant to all pregnant women and adolescent girls receiving comprehensive antenatal care (ANC) in any healthcare facility or community-based setting, and to their unborn fetuses and newborns. The question was prioritized during the ANC guideline development process. In 20...
Cesareo, R;
Attanasio, R;
Caputo, M;
Castello, R;
Chiodini, I;
Falchetti, A;
Guglielmi, R;
Papini, E;
Santonati, A;
Scillitani, A;
Toscano, V;
Triggiani, V;
Vescini, F;
Zini, M.
Vitamin D deficiency is very common and prescriptions of both assay and supplementation are increasing more and more. Health expenditure is exponentially increasing, thus it is timely and appropriate to establish rules. The Italian Association of Clinical Endocrinologists appointed a task force to review...
This guideline covers vitamin D supplement use. It aims to prevent vitamin D deficiency among specific population groups including infants and children aged under 4, pregnant and breastfeeding women, particularly teenagers and young women, people over 65, people who have low or no exposure to the sun and...
Yepes-Nuñez, J. J;
Fiocchi, A;
Pawankar, R;
Cuello-Garcia, C. A;
Zhang, Y;
Morgano, G. P;
Ahn, K;
Al-Hammadi, S;
Agarwal, A;
Gandhi, S;
Beyer, K;
Burks, W;
Canonica, G. W;
Ebisawa, M;
Kamenwa, R;
Lee, B. W;
Li, H;
Prescott, S;
Riva, J. J;
Rosenwasser, L;
Sampson, H;
Spigler, M;
Terracciano, L;
Vereda, A;
Waserman, S;
Schünemann, H. J;
Brożek, J. L.
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of allergic diseases is approximately 10 % in infants whose parents and siblings do not have allergic diseases and 20-30 % in those with an allergic first-degree relative. Vitamin D is involved in the regulation of the immune system and it may play a role in the development, se...
Hypoparathyroidism (HypoPT) is a rare (orphan) endocrine disease with low calcium and inappropriately low (insufficient) circulating parathyroid hormone levels, most often in adults secondary to thyroid surgery. Standard treatment is activated vitamin D analogues and calcium supplementation and not repla...
Reyes-García, R;
García-Martín, A;
Varsavsky, M;
Rozas-Moreno, P;
Cortés-Berdonces, M;
Luque-Fernández, I;
Gómez Sáez, J. M;
Vidal Casariego, A;
Romero Muñoz, M;
Guadalix Iglesias, S;
Fernández García, D;
Jódar Gimeno, E;
Muñoz Torres, M.
Objetivo: Actualizar las recomendaciones previas formuladas por el Grupo de trabajo de osteoporosis y metabolismo mineral de la Sociedad Española de Endocrinología y Nutrición (SEEN) para la evaluación y el tratamiento de la osteoporosis asociada a diferentes enfermedades endocrinas y alteraciones nu...
Vitamin D deficiency is thought to be common among pregnant women,
particularly during the winter months, and has been found to be associated with an increased risk of
pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes mellitus, preterm birth, and other tissue-specific conditions. Recent
scientific literature has repor...
