Oral vs. injected: which vitamin D boost works best for low levels? (2024)

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the divine and all the staff, residents and senior residents of the Department of Pharmacology, Department of Medicine and Department of Orthopedics who contributed their support for this study. We are also thankful to our participants for consenting to be part of the study.

Research ethics: The local Institutional Review Board provided ethical approval for the study.
Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.
Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
Competing interests: The authors state no conflict of interest.
Research funding: Although there was no funding, the medicines were made available to patients for free.
Data availability: Not applicable.

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