Saturday 18 June 2016

Most Common Disease of 50plus: The Clinical trials and Studies of Musculo-Skeletal disorders(MSDs) - Fibromyalgia - The Free Radical scavengers - Vitamin D

Kyle J. Norton(Scholar, Master of Nutrients), all right reserved.
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Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are  medical condition mostly caused by work related occupations and working environment, affecting patients’ muscles, joints, tendons, ligaments and nerves and developing over time. A community sample of 73 females and 32 males aged 85 and over underwent a standardised examination at home. Musculoskeletal pain was reported by 57% of those interviewed(1).

      Types of Musculo-Skeletal disorders in elder

1. Osteoarthritis
2. Gout
3. Rheumatoid Arthritis
4. Polymalagia Arthritis
5. Cervical myleopathy and spinal canal stenosis
6. Osteoporosis
7. Low back pain
8. Fibromyalgia

                                                      Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia, according to the American College of Rheumatology 1990 Criteria for the Classification of Fibromyalgia in the newly proposed criteria for the classification of fibromyalgia are 1) widespread pain in combination with 2) tenderness at 11 or more of the 18 specific tender point sites(a) as a result in responding to pressure.

The Antioxidants

Free radicals are atoms, molecules, or ions with unpaired electrons through chemical bonds with other atoms or molecules during a chemical reaction. They may have positive, negative or zero charge.

Free Radicals play an important role in the function of the Immune System. The immune system produces free radicals to kill foreign microbes(152)(153), but the production of free radical sometime can be excessive, leading to formation of a large number of free radicals(154)(155). The domino effects have shown to induce many chronic illness, such as cancers(155).
Furthermore, free radicals also displays over expression of oxidative stress, inducing varies form of chronic illness including metabolic syndrome(156).

                            The Free Radical scavengers
3. Vitamin D
Deficiency of vitamin D is found to associate to nonspecific musculoskeletal pain. According to Maccabi Healthcare Services, improvement of levels of 25OHD reduced Polymyalgia pain induced by the use of statins(167). According to the Spine Unit, Center of Excellence for Orthopaedic Pain Management, oral administration of vitamin D reduced remarkably in pain of patient with FM in visual analog scale scores(168).
Dr. Matthana MH said, "Vitamin D deficiency has to be considered in the management of fibromyalgia syndrome" as "Among the 100 fibromyalgia women, there were 61 women with 25(OH) D deficiency; with vitamin D supplementation, only 42 women showed a significant improvement when their blood level of 25(OH) D became>or=30 ng/mL, this improvement became more significant when their blood level of 25(OH) D exceeded 50 ng/ mL"(169).
In support to the above diagnosis, evaluation of Saudi Arabia women, also showed a significant negative correlation between vitamin D level and widespread pain index(170).

(167) Muscle pain and serum creatine kinase are not associated with low serum 25(OH) vitamin D levels in patients receiving statins by Kurnik D1, Hochman I, Vesterman-Landes J, Kenig T, Katzir I, Lomnicky Y, Halkin H, Loebstein R.(PubMed)
(168) Effects of vitamin D on patients with fibromyalgia syndrome: a randomized placebo-controlled trial by Wepner F1, Scheuer R2, Schuetz-Wieser B2, Machacek P2, Pieler-Bruha E2, Cross HS3, Hahne J2, Friedrich M2.(PubMed)
(169) The relation between vitamin D deficiency and fibromyalgia syndrome in women by Matthana MH1.(PubMed)
(170) Vitamin D deficiency in women with fibromyalgia in Saudi Arabia by Abokrysha NT1.(PubMed)


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