Health literacy deficiency and type 2 diabetes: a retrospective review

Treatment guidelines for the management of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and vitamin D deficiency do not exist. The primary purpose of this project was to describe vitamin D prescribing patterns, monitoring patterns, and repletion rates for patients with T2DM and vitamin D deficiency. A secondary interest was to consider glycemic control before and after the correction of vitamin D hypovitaminosis to determine if future controlled interventional studies examining the efficacy of treating vitamin D deficiency for patients with T2DM are warranted and support the development of guidelines for managing vitamin D deficiency for patients with T2DM.