Does Serum Vitamin D Influence the Prognosis of Critically Ill Patients with Trauma? A Prospective, Observational Study in a Trauma Center.

What Was Tested

This observational study looks at Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc.

However, the role of vitamin D in critically injured patients with trauma remains unknown.

This study investigated the effects of vitamin D concentrations on outcomes in critically injured patients with trauma.

Who Took Part

The abstract describes 100 patients taking part.

The age groups tagged for this paper are middle-aged adults, both men and women.

A prospective observational study was conducted by randomly selecting 100 patients among those who visited their trauma center.

How the Study Was Run

The association between the surveyed variables and vitamin D concentrations was investigated using regression analysis.

What Was Measured

This study investigated the effects of vitamin D concentrations on outcomes in critically injured patients with trauma.

PubMed files the paper under topics including Vitamin D, Critical Illness, Trauma Centers, Vitamin D Deficiency, Vitamins, Prognosis and Length of Stay.

The authors tagged it with the keywords Critically ill, Intensive care units and Mortality.

What This Means in Plain Language

This is an observational study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in 100 patients.

Results are reported in around 5 sentences of the abstract; we leave them to the paper itself rather than summarise them.

The publication is from 2023 (Clinics in orthopedic surgery), a journal based in Korea (South).

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, all human trials.