Vitamin D deficiency is a low level of vitamin D in your body. Vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium from foods.Vitamin D is also essential for maintaining a healthy immune system. The function of the immune system is to prevent or limit infection....
Objective: To determine the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in critically ill children, and to study its association with parathyroid response, severity of illness and clinical outcomes. Design: Prospective observational study. Setting: Medical Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of a tertiary care centre ...
A vitamin D deficiency means you don't have enough of this vitamin in your body. You need vitamin D to grow and maintain your bones. You could be at risk for deficiency if you don't get enough sunlight on your skin, you have a disorder that reduces your body's ability to absorb it...
Vitamin D deficiency has emerged as a significant public health problem throughout the world. Even in the Indian context,it has been reported to be present in majority of children in spite of wide availability of sunlight. Recent guidelines have defined vitamin D status as severe deficiency, defi...
Vitamin D deficiency can result from inadequate exposure to sunlight; malabsorption; accelerated catabolism from certain medications; and, in infants, the minimal amount of vitamin D found in breast milk. In children, vitamin D deficiency can result in r
Preventive careRacial/ethnic differencesVitamin D deficiencyOsteoporosis is a major public health problem in the United States of America and around the world... C Becker,S Crow,J Toman,... - 《Osteoporos Int》 被引量: 116发表: 2006年 Evidence-Based and Evidence-Inspired: An Intergenerational ...
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with muscle weakness, pain, and atrophy. Serum vitamin D predicts muscle strength and age-related muscle changes. However, precise mechanisms by which vitamin D affects skeletal muscle are unclear. To address this question, this study characterizes the muscle phenoty...
childhood cancer survivors;cancer survivorship;late effects;risk factor;vitamin D deficiency 1. Introduction In recent years there have been increasing numbers of childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) as a result of advancements in cancer therapy [1]. Surveillance of long-term health effects, including bo...
Vitamin D; Vitamin D deficiency; chronic kidney disease; proteinuria1. Introduction Vitamin D (VD) is a pro-hormone essential for life in higher animals. It is present in few types of foods and is produced endogenously in the skin by a photochemical reaction [1]. There are two major forms...
vitamin D deficiency;prevalence;Malaysia 1. Introduction Calciferol, generally known as vitamin D, is a fat-soluble vitamin. The human body may synthesize vitamin D with the help of sunlight, specifically ultraviolet light that falls onto the skin from a precursor of cholesterol; hence, it is a...