Vitamin supplementation: Unmonitored prescription can be dangerous

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kumar, Naveen ^a   Sharma, Sourabh ^a   Gupta, Harish ^a   Gadpayle, Adesh Kumar ^a  

^a DR RAM MANOHAR LOHIA HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CALCITONIN; CALCIUM; COLECALCIFEROL; CREATINE; HEMOGLOBIN; PAMIDRONIC ACID; UREA; URIC ACID; VITAMIN D;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIUM URINE LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSTIPATION; DEHYDRATION; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; LETHARGY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MICTURITION DISORDER; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN INTAKE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 84883041864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2013-009234     Document Type: Article

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