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Vitamin D status in relation to nutritional depletion and muscle function in patients with advanced pulmonary disease
Experimental Lung Research, 08/25/09

Forli L et al. – Vitamin D intake was a stronger predictor of calcidiol status in the underweight patients than in the normal–weight ones. In the resulting models for 6–minute walking distance, calcidiol was a significant predictor, which tended to be more marked in the underweight patients than in the normal–weight ones. Low serum calcidiol concentration was associated with fat mass, lung obstruction, and low intake of vitamin D, especially in the underweight patients, and calcidiol was a predictor of walking distance.

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