new vit d guidelines
The Endocrine Society just published new guidelines on vitamin D assessment and treatment for the general population of adults, basically negating the need to perform vitamin D monitoring or therapy (see vit d endocrine soc guidelines2024 in dropbox, or doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgae322 ). This document was actually written at a “guideline communication” by the Endocrine Society’s Guideline Development Panel. quotes below are from the guidelines or the more extensive systematic reviews published to support their findings Details/Commentary: -- the new guidelines suggest the following major changes to their prior guidelines of 2011: -- they no longer endorse the concept of vitamin D “sufficiency”, previously defined as 25(OH)D levels at least 30 ng/mL, nor vitamin D “insufficiency” as being a 25(OH)D levels of 20-30 ng/mL, nor vitamin D “deficiency” as being a 25(OH)D <20 ng/mL, for the following reasons: ...