Are serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations associated with prevalence of metabolic syndrome and various cardiometabolic risk factors in US children and adolescents based on assay-adjusted serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D data from NHANES 2001-2006?
On the basis of assay-adjusted data, serum 25(OH)D was significantly associated with several cardiometabolic risk factors regardless of obesity. In children, given the negative outcomes associated with poor vitamin D status and MetSyn, consideration of vitamin D supplementation in reversing cardiometabolic risk factors appears to be warranted.
Postprostatectomy bladder neck location defined by the BNPS ratio on cystogram correlates with continence rates and may predict patients at risk for prolonged incontinence. Efforts designed to preserve support of the bladder neck and sphincteric complex in relation to the pubic symphysis may improve both early and late continence.