Improvement of pain, sleep, and quality of life in chronic pain patients with vitamin D supplementation

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 341-347

  Huang, Wei ^a,b   Shah, Shivani ^b   Long, Qi ^d   Crankshaw, Alicia K ^a   Tangpricha, Vin ^a,c  

^a ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Atlanta VA Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Quality improvement; Quality of life; Sleep; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; COLECALCIFEROL; ERGOCALCIFEROL;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE STUDY; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTPATIENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE; SLEEP; SLEEP TIME; SOCIAL STATUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VETERAN; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ADULT; CHRONIC PAIN; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SLEEP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMINS;

EID: 84874929251     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: 15365409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e318255655d     Document Type: Article

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