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Development of a Short Questionnaire for the Screening for Vitamin D Deficiency in Italian Adults: The EVIDENCe-Q Project

Background: To develop and validate a questionnaire for the screening of Vitamin D in Italian adults (Evaluation Vitamin D dEficieNCy Questionnaire, EVIDENCe-Q). Methods: 150 participants, attending the 11Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics Operative Unit, Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Istituti...

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Autores principales: De Giuseppe, Rachele, Tomasinelli, Chiara Elena, Cena, Hellas, Braschi, Valentina, Giampieri, Francesca, Preatoni, Giorgia, Centofanti, Domenico, Princis, Maria Pilar, Bartoletti, Emanuele, Biino, Ginevra
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9101103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35565739
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14091772
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author De Giuseppe, Rachele
Tomasinelli, Chiara Elena
Cena, Hellas
Braschi, Valentina
Giampieri, Francesca
Preatoni, Giorgia
Centofanti, Domenico
Princis, Maria Pilar
Bartoletti, Emanuele
Biino, Ginevra
author_facet De Giuseppe, Rachele
Tomasinelli, Chiara Elena
Cena, Hellas
Braschi, Valentina
Giampieri, Francesca
Preatoni, Giorgia
Centofanti, Domenico
Princis, Maria Pilar
Bartoletti, Emanuele
Biino, Ginevra
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description Background: To develop and validate a questionnaire for the screening of Vitamin D in Italian adults (Evaluation Vitamin D dEficieNCy Questionnaire, EVIDENCe-Q). Methods: 150 participants, attending the 11Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics Operative Unit, Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, of Pavia were enrolled. Demographic variables and serum levels of vitamin D were recorded. The EVIDENCe-Q included information regarding factors affecting the production, intake, absorption and metabolism of Vitamin D. The EVIDENCe-Q score ranged from 0 (the best status) to 36 (the worst status). Results: Participants showed an inadequate status of Vitamin D, according to the current Italian reference values. A significant difference (p < 0.0001) in the EVIDENCe-Q score was found among the three classes of vitamin D status (severe deficiency, deficiency and adequate), being the mean score higher in severe deficiency and lower in the adequate one. A threshold value for EVIDENCe-Q score of 23 for severe deficiency, a threshold value of 21 for deficiency and a threshold value of 20 for insufficiency were identified. According to these thresholds, the prevalence of severe deficiency, deficiency and insufficiency was 22%, 35.3% and 43.3% of the study population, respectively. Finally, participants with EVIDENCe-Q scores <20 had adequate levels of vitamin D. Conclusions: EVIDENCe-Q can be a useful and easy screening tool for clinicians in their daily practice at a reasonable cost, to identify subjects potentially at risk of vitamin D deficiency and to avoid unwarranted supplementation and/or costly blood testing.
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spelling pubmed-91011032022-05-14 Development of a Short Questionnaire for the Screening for Vitamin D Deficiency in Italian Adults: The EVIDENCe-Q Project De Giuseppe, Rachele Tomasinelli, Chiara Elena Cena, Hellas Braschi, Valentina Giampieri, Francesca Preatoni, Giorgia Centofanti, Domenico Princis, Maria Pilar Bartoletti, Emanuele Biino, Ginevra Nutrients Article Background: To develop and validate a questionnaire for the screening of Vitamin D in Italian adults (Evaluation Vitamin D dEficieNCy Questionnaire, EVIDENCe-Q). Methods: 150 participants, attending the 11Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics Operative Unit, Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, of Pavia were enrolled. Demographic variables and serum levels of vitamin D were recorded. The EVIDENCe-Q included information regarding factors affecting the production, intake, absorption and metabolism of Vitamin D. The EVIDENCe-Q score ranged from 0 (the best status) to 36 (the worst status). Results: Participants showed an inadequate status of Vitamin D, according to the current Italian reference values. A significant difference (p < 0.0001) in the EVIDENCe-Q score was found among the three classes of vitamin D status (severe deficiency, deficiency and adequate), being the mean score higher in severe deficiency and lower in the adequate one. A threshold value for EVIDENCe-Q score of 23 for severe deficiency, a threshold value of 21 for deficiency and a threshold value of 20 for insufficiency were identified. According to these thresholds, the prevalence of severe deficiency, deficiency and insufficiency was 22%, 35.3% and 43.3% of the study population, respectively. Finally, participants with EVIDENCe-Q scores <20 had adequate levels of vitamin D. Conclusions: EVIDENCe-Q can be a useful and easy screening tool for clinicians in their daily practice at a reasonable cost, to identify subjects potentially at risk of vitamin D deficiency and to avoid unwarranted supplementation and/or costly blood testing. MDPI 2022-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9101103/ /pubmed/35565739 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14091772 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Tomasinelli, Chiara Elena
Cena, Hellas
Braschi, Valentina
Giampieri, Francesca
Preatoni, Giorgia
Centofanti, Domenico
Princis, Maria Pilar
Bartoletti, Emanuele
Biino, Ginevra
Development of a Short Questionnaire for the Screening for Vitamin D Deficiency in Italian Adults: The EVIDENCe-Q Project
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title_full Development of a Short Questionnaire for the Screening for Vitamin D Deficiency in Italian Adults: The EVIDENCe-Q Project
title_fullStr Development of a Short Questionnaire for the Screening for Vitamin D Deficiency in Italian Adults: The EVIDENCe-Q Project
title_full_unstemmed Development of a Short Questionnaire for the Screening for Vitamin D Deficiency in Italian Adults: The EVIDENCe-Q Project
title_short Development of a Short Questionnaire for the Screening for Vitamin D Deficiency in Italian Adults: The EVIDENCe-Q Project
title_sort development of a short questionnaire for the screening for vitamin d deficiency in italian adults: the evidence-q project
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9101103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35565739
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14091772
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