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Vitamin D and the immunomodulation of rotator cuff injury.
Tendon-to-bone healing after rotator cuff repair surgery has a failure rate of 20%-94%. There has been a recent interest to...
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The Safe and Effective Use of Plant-Based Diets with Guidelines for Health Professionals.
Plant-based diets, defined here as including both vegan and lacto-ovo-vegetarian diets, are growing in popularity throughout the Western world for...
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Low serum vitamin B12 levels are associated with degenerative rotator cuff tear.
Background: Vitamin B12 (Vit B12) deficiency results in elevated homocysteine levels and interference with collagen cross-linking, which may affect tendon...
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The biology of rotator cuff healing.
Despite advances in surgical reconstruction of chronic rotator cuff (RC) tears leading to improved clinical outcomes, failure rates of 13-94%...
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Epidemiology, natural history, and indications for treatment of rotator cuff tears.
The etiology of rotator cuff disease is likely multifactorial, including age-related degeneration and microtrauma and macrotrauma. The incidence of rotator...
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Association between alcohol consumption and rotator cuff tear.
Background and purpose: Long-term alcohol intake is associated with various negative effects on capillary microcirculation and tissue perfusion. We hypothesized...
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Ferrous bisglycinate 25 mg iron is as effective as ferrous sulfate 50 mg iron in the prophylaxis of iron deficiency and anemia during pregnancy in a randomized trial.
Objective: To compare the effects of oral ferrous bisglycinate 25 mg iron/day vs. ferrous sulfate 50 mg iron/day in the...
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The Evaluation of Iron Deficiency and Iron Overload.
Background: In the western world, 10-15% of women of child-bearing age suffer from iron-deficiency anemia. Iron overload due to chronic...
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Guideline for the laboratory diagnosis of functional iron deficiency.
Functional iron deficiency (FID) is a state in which there is insufficient iron incorporation into erythroid precursors in the face...
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