Vitamin D Deficiency Risk Analysis Quiz 1, African, Southeast Asian, Latin American, and Arab, or if your skin type falls into 4, 5, or 6 (sun exposure time schedule). (3 points). As long as you are not Caucasian, it is a 3. 2. Your body mass index (BMI body weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared Normal is 18.5-25 Over 25 is overweight, over 28 is obese) is 30 or higher. (3 points) 3. You are a breastfed baby and do not take vitamin D supplements. (3 points) 4. You are easily fatigued or have frequent muscle, bone and joint pain. (2 points) 5. You are 50 years old or older. (2 points) 6.You live north of latitude 35°N (equivalent to the location of the line from Linyi, Shandong Province – Zhengzhou, Henan Province – Yuncheng, Shanxi Province – Tongchuan, Shaanxi Province, and 39.2 – 41°N for Beijing), or south of latitude 35°S. (2 points) 7.You put on sunscreen with SPF 8 or higher before you go out. (2 points) 8, You rarely (less than 3 times a week) spend time outdoors in the sun between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm (2 points) Skin type: (Chinese are yellow, all between 3-6) 1, always sunburned, never tanned 2, very easily sunburned, rarely tanned 3, occasionally sunburned, slowly tanned 4, rarely sunburned, quickly tanned 5, never sunburned, always tanned Total score = ______________ Score for each section: 0 – 2 points = low risk 3 – 5 points = high risk >; 5 points = very high risk A score above 5 points makes vitamin D deficiency very likely. In fact Chinese (3 points), in Beijing (2 points), it is already 5 points, if you stay in the office building all day, you can be sure to have vitamin D deficiency; if you are in sometimes female, the chances are further increased a lot, Chinese women are smearing whitening cosmetics, in fact, sunscreen; if the ideal level is above 30ng/ml, 20-30 is vitamin D deficiency, <; 20 is vitamin D deficiency, and <;10 is severe vitamin D deficiency. We measured the 25 hydroxyl vitamin D levels of 5531 people in Beijing and found that the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency reached 87.4%;, more common in women and the elderly, and the prevalence of primary and secondary school students is very, very high, many children suffer from scoliosis, do not know what the cause, a check of vitamin D levels, below the detection limit of 3 ng/ml, so parents, you have to really care about the health of children, check the vitamin D Levels, more sunshine, supplementation of vitamin D is the right way. In the endocrine and osteoporosis clinics, we see too many cases of back pain and cervical spondylosis in orthopedics, diagnosed as osteophytes, lumbar disc herniation, cervical spondylosis, rheumatoid, etc. In fact, most of them are vitamin D deficient, and the symptoms disappear quickly after vitamin D supplementation. There are also many people who come to the clinic for other diseases (such as thyroid nodules, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, diabetes), and after I suggest checking vitamin D, it turns out that they have vitamin D deficiency in their eyes.